J.M. Keynes | The End of Laissez-Faire, 1926, first edition, dust jacket

John Maynard Keynes

The End of Laissez-Faire. London: Hogarth Press, 1926

FIRST EDITION, 8vo (190 x 130mm), publisher's cloth-backed blue boards with printed label on spine, dust-jacket, strengthened at head of jacket at spine, minor spotting to jacket, marks and slight fading to boards, minor rubbing to corners

...A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind...

This short work, based on Keynes's 1924 Sidney Ball Memorial Lecture, is a concise critique of laissez-faire capitalism. It was printed by Keynes's friends Leonard and Virginia Woolf.