First English edition, published simultaneously in Chicago and New York, of Roscher’s main work, originally published in 1854. This edition translated from the thirteenth German edition: this was ‘perhaps the most widely-read textbook of economics in Germany in the second half of the nineteenth century’ (Blaug).

‘It analysed essentially the same topics as the classical economists - production, distribution and prices. Roscher was already strongly influenced by supply and demand approaches, but still determined the exchange value of a commodity by its cost of production. His theory of rent was Ricardian and his thinking about population development followed Malthusian patterns. Differing from classical textbooks, Roscher supplemented the theoretical analysis with a historical description - the reader finds the history of rent, interest and wages, of population development, of the prices of necessary and luxury commodities [including slaves], and of luxury in general’ (New Palgrave).

Not in Einaudi.