Search Results: Economics from Whiting Books

Princeton, New Jersey: D. Van Nostrand Company, Inc., 1960. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First English Translation. Mild wear to book and jacket, some toning to the jacket. 229 pages with Index. Contributions from Carl Menger, Freiherr von Wieser, Ludwig Pohle, Ludwig von Mises, Paul Painleve, Jacques Ruff, and Luigi Einaudi..

Irvington-on-Hudson, New York: The Foundation for Economic Education, 1949. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Blue cloth covers with silver lettering. Mild wear. The dust jacket is chipped and has edge tears and toning. Protected now in a Mylar sleeve. 159 pages with Index. From the dust jacket: "Though concerned primarily with the philosophy of liberty, the author [Dr. Floyd A. Harper] devotes considerable time to economic liberty. He explains how liberty in every other area rests on its preservation in the economic sphere. In the course of this explanation he makes some startling and disturbing observations about the relation of liberty to government, democracy, charity, peace, progress, and prosperity.".

Washington, D.C.: National Home Library Foundation, 1937. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Blue cloth boards with very mild wear and a faded ownership stamp. The jacket had edge tears and rubbing wear. Small book, almost pocket-size, at 4.25 X 6.5 inches. 182 pages. From the Preface by the author, a consulting engineer and economist, on the subject of taxation: "The tangled wilderness of economics, wherein our country wanders lost and hungry, is nowhere filled with swamps and underbrush as in the area of taxation. This little guidebook is intended to help the reader to find his way through the swamp of expert and inexpert argument about taxes, without losing his direction or being asphyxiated by the vapors that hang over the subject.".