‎Oeufs rouges. Première partie. Sorhouet mourant à M. de Maupeou, Chancelier de France. Du 25 Avril 1772. (Drop-head title.) No place, (1772). With 3 engravings (2 folding). - (Followed by:) SUPPLEMENT à la Gazette de France. De Paris, le Vendredi 6 Mars. (no. 5.) (Drop-head title). No place, no date. - (Followed by:) L'AUTEUR du quatrième Supplément à M. de Maupeou, Chancelier de France. De Paris, ce lundi 6 Avril 1772. (Drop-head title). No place, no date. - (Followed by:) LE POINT de vue, ou Lettres de M. le Prés. . . . à M. le Duc de N. . . . No place, 1772. - (Followed by:) (MORIZOT, M.) Inauguration de Pharamond; ou Exposition des lox fondamentales de la monarchie Françoise: avec les preuves de leur execution, Perpétuées sous les trois Races de nos Rois. No place, 1772. With one engraved plate. - (Followed by:) (PIDANSAT DE MAIROBERT, M. F.) Lettre de M. Terray, Ex-Contrôleur général, à M. Turgot, Ministre des Finances. Pour Servir de Supplément à la Correspondance entre le Sieur Sorhevet & M. de Maupeou. (Drop-head title).‎

‎No place, no date (1774). Six works bound in one volume. 64 pp.; 21, (1) pp.; 12 pp.; 68 pp.; (6), 152 pp.; 43, (1) pp. Small 8vo. Contemporary catspaw calf, spine gilt in compartments, compartments with floral ornaments, triple fillet on sides, marbled edges, a bit rubbed, small damage to head of spine, corners lightly bumped. First work: Conlon 72:539.First edition.According to Conlon this work has also been attributed to M. F. Pidansat de Mairobert. It is a satyrical piece against Maupeou and his politics, and it contains an explication of the two folding allegorical plates. The third engraving shows a man handing over manuscripts to an ill man in his bed, with the text below "L'Editeur de la Correspondance reçoit des mains de l'Auteur les Oeufs rouges de Monseigneur." Third work: Conlon 72:72.First edition.This work is possibly also by J.M. Augeard: Conlon states that the BL has classified it under his name. Fourth work: Conlon 72:389.First edition.Fifth work: Conlon 72:1076First edition.Sixth work: Conlon 74:1383; INED 4292; not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Higgs.First edition.'Apocryphe. .... Pour servir de suite à la Correspondance secrète et familière de M. de Maupeou avec M. de Sor***, par Pidansat de Mairobert. Lettre apocryphe attaquant Maupeou et la politique financière de Turgot. Allusion à un mémoire sur l'emploi des biens ecclésiastiques suivant le voeu de l'Église primitive' (INED). The attribution is based on the Conlon entry. ‎

‎Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire du droit public de la France en matière d'impôts, ou Recueil de ce qui s'est passé de plus intéressant à la Cour des Aides, depuis 1756 jusqu'au mois de Juin 1775; Avec une Table générale des Matières.‎

‎A Bruxelles, 1779. xiv, 776, (2, errata, blank), 10 pp. 4to. Contemporary calf, spine gilt with raised bands, red label with gilt lettering, marbled edges, some minor blemishes to binding. Kress B.175; Goldsmiths 11860; Einaudi 207; INED 137; Quérard, La France Littéraire, i, p. 126; Dupin/Camus 954bis, pointing to the fact that this work is only complete with the 10 pages supplement, as is the case here; Le Bucher bibliographique, 114. Very rare only edition and suppressed by the Cour des Aides in February 1779 because it was considered contrary to the authority of the Court, it lacked respect for its decisions and it violated the confidentiality of the decisions. This precious and scarce volume, which was not available on the market and which was suppressed in 1779, contains the work of Malesherbes during his tenure in office at the Cour des Aides, that is, the work of 25 years: the reports of the sessions of the Cour des Aides and the remonstrances. It was published with tacit permission and did not contain, in the first instance, those pleas in which Malerherbes addressed the king in quite frank language. These withheld texts were shortly thereafter nevertheless printed and inserted and they form the indispensible 10 page supplement at the end of the volume.The Court des Aides was suppressed, together with the Parliaments, by Maupeou in his attempt at reform; it played, under Malesherbes, a significient role of opposition to what the Court considered to be "royal arbitrariness" and basically shared the "constitutionalist" ideology common to most members of the Grande Robe. The Court was suppressed in 1771 and re-instated in 1774: Malesherbes was recalled to Paris with the reconstituted Cour des Aides on the accession of Louis XVI; it was at this point that he spearheaded the famous 1775 Remontrances of the cour des aides, which detailed the problems facing the regime and envisioned a total overhaul of fiscal policy. Louis XVI was so impressed with the plan -and fearful for the future of his government- that Malesherbes was appointed minister of the maison du roi in 1775. He held office as a royal minister only nine months; the Court proved intransigent in its opposition to his proposals for fiscal restraint and other reforms, including curtailing the arbitrary issuance of lettres de cachet, and he soon found himself bereft of political support. He resigned together with Turgot in 1776.- Pages 71-72 bound between pages 66-67, and with the pages 71-72 bis present, 457-8 omitted in numbering, numbers 465-66 used twice, but text complete. ‎

‎Behaviour of the Firm under Regulatory Constraint. - [THE AVERCH-JOHNSON EFFECT]‎

‎[No place], The American Economic Association, 1955. Lex8vo. In the original printed wrappers. In ""The American Economic Review"", Vol. VII, December, No. 5. Entire issue offered. Light wear to extremities, otherwise fine and clean. Pp. 1052-69. [Entire issue: (5), 996-1258 pp. + advertisement].‎

‎First printing of Averch and Johnson's seminal paper in which they introduced in what was to become known as the ""Averch-Johnson effect"". The paper was one of the most cited and influential papers in microeconmocs during the 60ies. ""The Averch-Johnson effect is produced when fair rate of return regulation encourages a firm to invest more than is consistent with the minimization of its costs. This can happen when the allowed rate of return exceeds the cost of capital, since the difference between the two represents pure profit. Detailed descriptions of actual regulatory processes may be useful in suggesting guides for action, since actual outcomes depend as much on political and bureaucratic necessity as they do on economic analysis and 'rational' benefit-cost estimates."" (The New Palgrave).""Averch and Johnson's famous paper from the early 1960s asks the simple question: If we assume that regulation acts to instantaneously adjust prices so as to maintain a constant target return on a firm's capital stock, what incentives does the firm have to choose an efficient combination of inputs? Averch and Johnson show, using fairly straightforward maths, that if the regulator sets the regulatory rate of return above the firm's true cost of capital, the regulated firm has an incentive to choose too much capital relative to labour - that is, there will be an inefficient capital-labour ratio. This observation sparked off a large empirical and theoretical literature exploring what came to be known as the 'Averch-Johnson' or 'A-J' effect.The Averch-Johnson model assumed an extreme form of what is known as 'rate of return' or 'cost of service' regulation in which prices are continuously and rapidly adjusted so as to yield the desired return on capital stock. In reality, rate of return regulation as it was historically practiced in the US always involved an element of 'regulatory lag' - that is, a period of time before prices were adjusted to reflect changes in costs. This regulatory lag gives rise to some desirable incentives, as discussed furtherbelow. Even in 1962 it was recognised that allowing higher ex post rates of return was necessary to induce desirable incentives. Averch and Johnson note: ""We have been told by representatives in both the industry and in regulatory agencies that justification exists for allowing a return in excess of cost to give firms an incentive to develop and adopt cost-saving techniques. If the firm is left only indifferent as among a wide range of activities it has no positive incentive to minimize costs for any given activity.""Averch and Johnson's paper was, for a while at least, very widely cited, often incorrectly. The A-J effect later came to be synonymous with 'gold-plating' and with general inefficiency of the regulated firm. But these ideas cannot be strictly attributed to Averch and Johnson. Averch and Johnson only highlighted a potential tendency towards an inefficient mix of capital and labour - but they made no mention of the tendency to simply spend too much on all inputs - so-called 'x-inefficiency' as discussed further below."" (biggar, The Fifty Most Important Papers in the Economics of Regulation).‎

‎Science économique des manufactures, Traduit de l'Anglais de Ch. Babbage, sur la troisième édition, par M. Isoard.‎

‎Paris, A la librairie Orientale de Dondey-Dupré, 1834. xxiii, (1), 392 pp. 8vo. Contemporary half calf, marbled boards, spine gilt in compartments, gilt lettering, a bit rubbed. Goldsmiths 28497; not Einaudi; not in Kress. First edition of Isoard's translation of the second part of Babbage's Economy of Machinery and Manufactures - the domestic and political economies of manufactures - published just a year after Biot's first translation into French. This translation is taken from the important third edition containing the final text of the classic treatise on the economics of the manufacturing industry. Isoard's translation differs from the translation by Edouard Biot. While Biot chose to translate the entirety of Babbage's work, Isoard was more selective, with the aim of reaching a wider and more varied readership than Biot. He therefore dropped technical chapters on mechanics, translated much of the technical vocabulary into layman's terms, and rearranged many of the paragraphs in order to improve the continuity of each subject. The Economy of Machinery and Manufactures was Babbage's 'brilliant and utterly original foray into political economy ... Adam Smith had analysed the sources of increases in labour productivity to be found in the division of labour: Babbage took this fundamental principle of economic growth and applied it to the individual firm. His obvious first-hand knowledge of a wide variety of industrial and business processes, combined with general analysis of production systems, made the work a tour de force. At a time of anxiety and ambiguity over the reception of new technology, he also offered authoritative policy statements on a wide range of machinery issues, including patent reform, export of machinery, crises of over production, and technological unemployment. The book's intellectual position in relationship to political economy was not, however, easily apparent, and few apart from J.S. Mill and Karl Marx appreciated its significance to their discipline' (Maxine Berg in the introduction to the Pickering Masters edition of Babbage's works, 1989). ‎

‎The History of Modern Economic Analysis‎

‎Blackwell Publishers 1987 536 pages 15 2x3x22cm. 1987. Broché. 536 pages.‎

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‎Economists and the Economy: The Evolution of Economic Ideas (Classics in Economics Series)‎

‎Routledge 1994 274 pages 8 76x2 72x16 23cm. 1994. Broché. 274 pages.‎

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‎Den danske Stat eller Kongeriget Danmark med tilhørende Bilande, samt Hertugdømmerne Slesvig, Holsteen og Lauenborg, betragtet geographisk og statistisk især fra et militairt Standpunkt.‎

‎København, Bianco Luno, 1840. Lex8vo. Samt. hldrbd. med rig rygforgyldning. Ryg med lettere brugsspor. XXIV,494,(2) pp. Indvendig frisk eksemplar.‎

‎Originaludgaven.‎

‎Economics of the Financial System‎

‎Blackwell Publishers 1981 304 pages 14 8x2 4x22 4cm. 1981. Broché. 304 pages.‎

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‎The Evolution of the International Monetary System 1945 - 77‎

‎Penguin Books Ltd 1970 176 pages in8. 1970. Broché. 176 pages.‎

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‎Psychopathes & Cie - La soif pathologique de profit et de pouvoir‎

‎TRANSCONTINENTA 2004 15 2x1 5x22 7cm. 2004. Broché.‎

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‎L'Intéressement et la participation à la portée de tous: Modernisez votre politique de rémunération‎

‎ADIZES INST 2005 160 pages 15 6x1 4x20 8cm. 2005. Broché. 160 pages.‎

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‎Political Purse Strings: Role of the Legislature in the Budgetary Process‎

‎John Wiley & Sons Inc 1975 222 pages in8. 1975. Cartonné jaquette. 222 pages.‎

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‎Betænkninger i Anledning af det vigtige Rygte om en nye Mynt = Indretning i Holsteen.‎

‎Kiøbenhavn, Gyldendals Forlag, 1787. Uden omslag. (4),29 pp.‎

‎Originaltrykket af det skrift som startede ""Pjecekrigen"" . Det var F.L. Bang, som med sit anonyme skrift ""Betænkninger i Anledning af det vigtige Rygte om en ny Møntindretning i Holsten"" 1786, åbnede ""Pjecekrigen"" om den nye møntindretning i Holsten og oprettelsen af banken i Altona. - ""Pjecekrigen"" kan med en vis ret betegnes som grundlæggende for dansk økonomisk teori.Bibl. Danica II:862.‎

‎Nyere Betænkninger grundede paa Hr. Etatsraad Zöegas Forsøg ec. fra Forfatteren af Betænkninger i Anledning af Rygtet om den nye Myntindretning i Holsteen.‎

‎Kiøbenhavn, Gyldendals Forlag, 1787. Uden omslag. 48 pp. Rødt snit. Velbevaret.‎

‎Originaltrykket. Det var F.L. Bang, som med sit anonyme skrift ""Betænkninger i Anledning af det vigtige Rygte om en ny Møntindretning i Holsten"" 1786, åbnede ""Pjecekrigen"" om den nye møntindretning i Holsten og oprettelsen af banken i Altona, og som her i disse nye betragtninger fornyer sin kritik efter Zoëgas grundlæggende kritik. - ""Pjecekrigen"" kan med en vis ret betegnes som grundlæggende for dansk økonomisk teori.Bibl. Danica II:863.‎

‎Entwicklung der Bank Wädenswil in den Jahren 1863-1913. Im Auftrage des Verwaltungsrates verfasst von A. Wartmann.‎

‎Wädenswil, Buchdruckerei A. Stutz, 1914. Gr.-8°. 36 S. Mit 2 Tafeln und einer Tabelle. Orig.-Broschur (minim bestossen).‎

‎Widmung auf Titelblatt.‎

‎The East European Gypsies: Regime Change Marginality and Ethnopolitics‎

‎Cambridge University Press 1997 422 pages 15 2146x22 8854x2 6924cm. 1997. Broché. 422 pages.‎

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‎Petit Code de la Raison Humaine, ou Exposition succinte de ce que dicte à tous les hommes, Pour éclairer leur conduite & assurer leur bonheur. Par M.B.D.‎

‎(Paris), 1789. (iii)-xxii (misnumbered xxiv), 112 (misnumbered 114) pp. 12mo. Modern half calf, marbled boards, spine gilt in compartments, gilt lettering. Echeverria & Wilkie 789/7; INED 218; no edition in Kress; no edition in Goldsmiths; no edition in Einaudi; not in Sabin. Final edition of this little collection of 102 maxims and reflections forming a perfect abridged statement of the philosophy of the Enlightenment.'Both signatures a and b have had the first leaf of each cancelled; no located copy still has them present' (Echeverria & Wilkie). After the half-title and title the numbering of the prelims is: vii-ix, verso of ix an unnumbered blank page, ix again, verso numbered xii, xv-xxiv. This is a copy with a5r numbered ix (see Echeverria & Wilkie). The dedication is 'A Monsieur B.F. (i.e. Benjamin Franklin). The first edition was published in 1774 and a second one was printed in 1782 in Paris on the press of Benjamin Franklin. Livingston (19) writes: 'It was again printed in 1789, a close copy, typographically, of Franklin's Passy press edition, and this is the only edition recorded in the Catalogue of the Bibliothèque Nationale (1914).' According to Quérard (I, 175), this edition 'est plus complète que les autres', and he adds 'ce petit traité renferme beaucoup d'idées sur le commerce maritime.' 'Éloge de la famille et du mariage, du travail, de la tolérance. Défense du droit de propriété et de l'impôt foncier. Idées agrariennes sur la population et l'agriculture' (INED). On page 87 these lines on the USA: 'La Pensylvanie est le premier pays policé de l'univers où la tolérance réciproque de tous les cultes religieux ait été garantie par une loi authentique.'The pages 89-90 are omitted in the numbering, page (91)-end contains notes to the various maxims. Jacques Barbeu-Dubourg (1709-1779) was doctor, professor, journalist and businessman: he was Diderot's doctor untill Barbeu died, and he created various commercial companies with the aim to help the American revolutionaries. - Small tear in outer blank margin of the title-page and a few unobtrusive spots, verso title-page and recto last page with strengthened inner margin. ‎

‎l'economie du spectacle vivant qsj 3972‎

‎QUE SAIS JE 2013 128 pages 11 4x1 2x17 2cm. 2013. pocket_book. 128 pages.‎

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‎Les femmes dans la societe francaise au 20e siecle‎

‎Armand Colin Editeur 2014 288 pages 16x2x23 4cm. 2014. Broché. 288 pages.‎

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