Miscellaneous Essays and Addresses.

£150 · Offered by Maggs Bros Ltd

A posthumous collection bringing together some of Sidgwick’s most significant articles on economics and politics, including his influential address ‘The Scope and Method of Economic Science’ delivered to the Economic Science and Statistics Section of the British Association, that “argues that abstract reasoning can never be ‘a substitute for an accurate and thorough investigation of facts’, and discusses at length the relations between economics and politics” (Batson). From the library of Ernest Thorp, Professor of Modern and Political Thought at the London School of Economics, with his neat ownership inscription dated ‘1958’ to the front free endpaper.

• Year: 1904

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