Search Results: the conditions of economic progress by colin clark

By..., M.A., Director of the Institute for Research in Agricultural Economics, Oxford; Formerly Economic Adviser to the Government of Queensland. Third Edition. Largely Rewritten. MacMillan & Co Ltd. London. 1957. De 22x15 cm. Com xv, 720 págs. Encadernação do editor em tela, com ferros a ouro na lombada. Ilustrado no texto com tabelas e gráficos, e em extratexto com tabelas desdobráveis. Exemplar com danos à cabeça e no pé da lombada, picos de humidade nas folhas de guarda, assinatura de posse e carimbo oleográfico da Biblioteca Cruzeiro na folha de guarda anterior. I-158-C-7

Couverture rigide. Bon/1960. in-8. London, 1960, in-8, 720pp, Reliure éditeur jaquette illustrée, Très bel exemplaire!

London: Macmillan & Co. Ltd, 1951. xv, 584p., stated second edition and "completely rewritten," original blue cloth board, spine lettering in gilt; spine a tad sunned; no dustjacket, spine a bit tilted, else very good. From the library of Marxist economist and Stanford professor Paul A. Baran with his signature penned on the front endpaper.

London: Macmillan and Co. 1940. First edition, first printing. First edition, first printing. Publisher's original blue cloth with titles in gilt to the spine. With 5 folding plates. The copy of the Austrian School economist Frank Fetter (1863-1949), with his signature in ink to the front free endpaper. A near fine copy, the binding square and firm, the spine bright. The contents with Fetter's inscription and tanning to the endpapers are otherwise clean throughout. Lacking the dustwrapper but nevertheless an excellent copy of an important work. Colin Clark (1905-89) was a British economist and statistician widely noted for his groundbreaking work in economic statistics and national income estimates, pioneering the use of the gross national product (GNP) in his studies. This, the first edition of Clark's seminal work on growth, "not only gave a considerable stimulus to the subsequent development of growth theory and models, but also had an important effect on western thinking about… Read More

London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd,, 1940. First edition, first impression. The Conditions of Economic Progress (later revised in 1951 and extended in 1957) "argued that progress involves shifts from primary into secondary and tertiary sectors, and he quantified the size of the movement and its resulting changes in income and productivity through intensive empirical study. Clark was a master of data assembly, possessing an uncanny ability to draw elegant and simple conclusions" (ODNB). Clark's works on national income were landmarks in national accounting; his estimates were greatly relied on by Keynes. Octavo. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt. With dust jacket. Blindstamp of Roy Stuttard to front free endpaper; ink stamps "Research Dept." to front panel of jacket and to front free endaper; inked inscription dated 1989 to front pastedown. A fine copy, in near-fine jacket, light toning and soiling, minor rubbing at extremities.

The Conditions of Economic Progress (Third Edition, Largely Rewritten). By C. Clark. Published by Oxford University Press, Macmillan & Co Ltd in 1957, 1960. Hardcover, 720 pages. (In L3 box76.)

London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1940. Hardcover. VG+. ex-libris w/ stamp to cover flyleaf. light shelf-wear to lower covers; scuffs to cloth. dustjacket scuffed w/ wear to spine ridges & edges; chips to spine top; inner flapped clipped.. blue cloth boards w/ gilt spine printing. book xii, 504 pages w/ tables & fold-out charts. tan & red printing dustjacket. A very nice copy of this scarce and important work. Includes a September 21, 1940 review from The Economist magazine and a typed summary written by the original owner.

1940. London, Macmillan, 1940. 8vo. In the original blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine with the orignal price clipped dust jacket. Dust jacket with a few nicks and a 2 cm tear to lower part of spine. Previous owner's name and an "X" to front free end paper, other wise a fine and clean copy including all the folded plates. XII, 504 pp. + 5 folded plates. First edition of the author's seminal and "monumental" work which had a profound influence on Western thinking about the undeveloped world and is today considered one of the classic studies on growth. "not only gave a considerable stimulus to the subsequent development of growth theory and models but also had an important effect on western thinking about the undeveloped world. For the first time, the gulf between living standards in the rich and poor countries of the world was brought home in hard statistical terms. Well into the postwar years, until United Nations data became available, almost every writer on development economics quoted Colin… Read More

1940. London, Macmillan, 1940. 8vo. In the original blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine with the orignal dust jacket (not price clipped). Dust jacket with a few small nicks and wear to upper and lower part of spine. Previous owner's name to front free end paper, other wise a very fine and clean copy including all the folded plates. XII, 504 pp. + 5 folded plates. First edition of the author's seminal and "monumental" work which had a profound influence on Western thinking about the undeveloped world and is today considered one of the classic studies on growth. "not only gave a considerable stimulus to the subsequent development of growth theory and models but also had an important effect on western thinking about the undeveloped world. For the first time, the gulf between living standards in the rich and poor countries of the world was brought home in hard statistical terms. Well into the postwar years, until United Nations data became available, almost every writer on development economics… Read More