Leisure
TARDE, Gabriel.
Psychologie Économique. Paris, Alcan, 1902.
2 vols, 8vo, pp. [6], 383, [1]; [4], 449, [1 blank]; slightly toned at edges but a good copy in contemporary half brown morocco gilt with marbled boards, and matching endpapers; green silk placemarkers; ownership inscription in ink to front free endpaper, vigorous annotations in pencil and blue crayon throughout vol. I, a few to vol. II; Budapest bookseller’s ticket to front pastedown of vol. I.
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Psychologie Économique.
First edition, scarce. Tarde believed in the necessity of social harmony for viable economic activity, arguing that economic growth and innovation, like any form of social progress, is dependent on leisure, since it is leisure that encourages interactions between individuals and the formation of a social conscience. The shared fundamental values inherent in this conscience are necessary for forming markets and viable systems of price-setting, and for making wise investment decisions.
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