Essays in Biography. New Edition with Three Additional Essays. Edited by Geoffrey Keynes.

'ECONOMICS IS A VERY DANGEROUS SCIENCE.'

Second edition, revised. 8vo. 354 pp., frontispiece portrait of Malthus. Original black cloth, spine lettered in gilt, dust jacket (neat ownership inscription to front free endpaper and South African bookseller's label to front pastedown; light shelf wear to extremities of jacket with chipping to head of spine panel, withal a very good copy). London, Rupert Hart-Davis.

The definitive edition of this collection of biographical sketches by John Maynard Keynes, revised with the addition of three essays on William Stanley Jevons, Isaac Newton, and Mary Paley Marshall. The remaining fifteen subject include famous scientists, economists and statesmen, such as Winston Churchill, Lloyd George, Edwin Montagu, Thomas Robert Malthus, Alfred Marshall, F. Y. Edgeworth, and F. P. Ramsey. Of particular note is Keynes's essay on Malthus, being the source of his infamous statement 'Economics is a very dangerous science'. 

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