Hellements of Hickonomics in Hiccouphs of Verse Done in our Social Planning Mill.

£225 · Offered by Maggs Bros Ltd

A satire on economic life and thought, with Thomas Malthus, Adam Smith, bankers and insurance brokers all targeted. Stephen Leacock is best remembered as a humorist, but he was also head of the Department of Economics and Political Science at McGill University. The present work has an appendix where Leacock considers the future of the discipline, which he felt was ossifying and becoming too dreary: “This Hickonomics book is an attempt to open the locked door behind which economic scholasticism is drowsing into final oblivion, and to let in a new current of life” (p. 84).

• Binding: Hardcover

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