The Future of Work and Other Essays

8vo, (22.5cm). Publisher's original navy blue cloth, gilt titles to spine, cover. xvii, 302. Money, Italian-born economist, moved to Britain in the 1890s, and later became a protégé of Lloyd George. Made his name as a politician, journalist and author and served as parliamentary private secretary to Lloyd George and was a Government minister in World War I. He played a key role in formulating the groundbreaking national insurance scheme introduced by Lloyd George in the National Insurance Act 1911, which laid the foundations of the modern welfare state. Offsetting to endpapers, spine darkened, marks to boards. Copy of Oxford academic Michael Hart, his name to flyleaf. Uncommon in the first edition.