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Keynes, John Maynard.
How to Pay for the War.
Publisher: Macmillan and Co., Limited, London;
Date of Publication: 1940
Stock Code: 11539
First edition, first impression. Small octavo, pp. vii, [1], 88. With tables and financial illustrations within text. Publisher’s sky blue paper-covered boards with titles to spine and upper board. A tight, neat copy with no annotations or inscriptions. Boards a little soiled with front hinge just starting to crack but holding firm. The rarer, uncorrected version of Keynes’ essay; a corrected version with orange paper-covered boards was issued a few months later. One of economist Keynes’ later works, which applies his principles to the practical economic problem of financing WWII. Includes chapters entitled Rationing, Price Control & Wage Control and Can the Rich Pay for the War? £45.00