Economics

  • Signed by Leading 19th Century Economist

    George, Henry

    The Condition Of Labor: An Open Letter To Pope Leo XIII, with Encyclical Letter of Pope Leo XIII on the Condition of Labor.

    $500.00

    The Redbridge Book Co.

    United States Book Company, New York, 1891.  First edition, seemingly issued simultaneously in cloth and wrappers, this is the scarce cloth edition. Signed by the author without personalization adding “regards”.  Recipient’s small note below signature indicating receipt date. In this book, Henry addresses the issue of labor conditions in the late 19th century, particularly in the United States. He argues that the capitalist system is inherently flawed and that it leads to the exploitation of workers. Henry presents a detailed analysis of the economic and social factors that contribute to the poor conditions of labor and offers solutions to improve the situation. The book is written in the form of an open letter to Pope Leo XIII, who had recently published an encyclical on the issue of labor. Henry’s letter is a passionate plea to the Pope to use his influence to bring about change and to advocate for the rights of workers Some gingerness to the hinge in middle of the book, spine tips scuffed, corners rubbed.  Very good.

    Offered for Sale by: The Redbridge Book Co.

  • Signed by Nobel Prize Winning Economist

    Fogel, Robert & Engerman, Stanley

    Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery

    $450.00

    Founding Lines

    Little, Brown and Company: Boston, 1974.  First edition. Signed and dated by Fogel with a warm inscription to Henry Rosovsky, economist and academic administrator who served as dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences of Harvard University.  Rosovsky is among a large group of scholars cited in the book’s Acknowledgments who contributed to the development of the book.  The date of the inscription precedes by several weeks the New York Times’ review of the book. Fogel went on to win the 1993 Nobel Prize for Economics for “having renewed research in economic history by applying economic theory and quantitative methods in order to explain economic and institutional change,” according to the Nobel citation.  In the biography Fogel wrote for the Nobel, he acknowledges Rosovsky for providing research assistants, a computer programmer, and the computer time needed to conduct his research while at Harvard in the late 1970s. This groundbreaking book reexamined the economic foundations of American slavery, marking “the start of a new period of slavery scholarship and some searching revisions of a national tradition” (C. Vann Woodward, New York Review of Books).  The book generated somewhat of a firestorm of media coverage when it was first published due to its controversial hypothesis: that slavery was a highly efficient, profitable enterprise, that the South was generally flourishing economically on the eve of the Civil War, that the slaves were treated reasonably well, and that they had a standard of living compared favorably with many northern white industrial workers. “It is a rare monograph in economic history that gets reviewed in magazines and newspapers such as Newsweek, Time, The Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post among others; or whose authors appear on television talk shows. Robert Fogel and Stanley Engerman’s Time on the Cross was one such book — perhaps the only one.” A near fine copy in a very good dust wrapper owing to a tear on the rear panel.

    Offered for Sale by: Founding Lines
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