Added to your basket:
Teorja i praktyka ekonomji.

Checkout now

First edition, very rare, of Heryng’s Theory and practice of economics. Zygmunt Heryng, Polish economist and political activist, was deeply concerned with economics as a science. He saw it as a systematic and conscious pursuit of efficiency in resource allocation in relation to targets. One of the categories he cherished was ‘social energies’, a concept he uses in relation to demand and supply, which he describes as ‘mental states’, or desires. Averse to the use of macro-data (average combinations and aggregate data) in the analysis of economic phenomena, Heryng believed that statistics should instead concentrate on presenting present figures and facts in the form of properly grouped raw material (micro-data), for a more precise identification of factors influencing people’s behaviour.

OCLC lists no copies outside Poland.

You may also be interested in...

SISMONDI, J. C. L. Simonde de.

Nouveaux principes d’économie politique, ou de la richesse dans ses rapports avec la population ... Tome premier [- second].

First edition. ‘A number of concepts and theories that later became important in the history of economics first appeared in the writings of the Swiss economist J. C. L. Simonde de Sismondi … Sismondi developed the first aggregate equilibrium income theory and the first algebraic growth model. Yet both concepts had to be rediscovered and redeveloped by others before they entered the mainstream of economics, long after Sismondi’s time’ (The New Palgrave IV, 348 ff).

Read more

KUNDERA'S 'OPUS ONE' KUNDERA, Milan.

Smĕšné lásky. Tři melancholické anekdoty.

First edition of all three volumes of the trilogy which makes up Kundera’s early collection of short stories, Laughable Loves. ‘My writing took flight with the first story for Laughable Loves. This was my Opus 1. Everything I'd written prior to it can be considered prehistory’ (Kundera).

Read more