THE ECONOMIC POLICY PROBLEM IN PEACE AND WAR. Some Reflections on Objectives and Mechanisms.

FIRST EDITION. Small 8vo. 7.5 x 5 inches. vii + [i] + 85 + [1] pp. Bound n original green cloth with black titles, in unclipped dust wrapper which has minor edge wear and sunned spine. Edges a little foxed and flyleaves browned, but otherwise a very good copy. 1947 initials on the first free endpaper. The work consists of the Marshall Lectures delivered at Cambridge in the spring of 1947, a reappraisal in the light of recent experience of some of the main principles of economic policy. The first lecture discusses the basic objectives of production and distribution; the second, the rationale of the war economy and its applicability to the problems of transition and peace; the third, an approach to the problems of control in peace time. By Baron Lionel Charles Robbins (1898-1984). Robbins, a free market economist, was a prominent academic member of the LSE and was responsible for the development of the modern university system through his chairmanship of the Committee on Higher Education (Report 1963) ECONOMICS 20th CENTURY ECONOMICS POLITICS 20TH CENTURY ECONOMICS.…