The Partnership Way Out
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1935.
First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good- with no dust jacket. Item #15754
Light cock, light wear. Solid hardcover.; Great Depression era work by an engineer working for a property & casualty insurance company, suggesting economic recovery can be achieved by cooperative measures. "... the analysis outlined in the following pages starts at the beginning with a simple maxim like "the foundation stone of economic logic shall be a determination to build collective welfare by means of a direct appeal to man's selfish instinct" and progresses step by step until it reaches the conclusion that "prosperity is not something to be wrested from a merciless world by besting other nations in trade or war, but is self-contained even in a land that is not self-contained." Altogether there are pointed out eighty-seven of these steps of reasoning, embracing the more important items of social and economic welfare. These, and other similar steps of reasoning, constitute the Partnership Plan. ... If the attempts at applied reasoning found in these pages do nothing more than supply a crude set of economic laws as a stepping stone to a superstructure of economic logic, they will have served a useful purpose." ; xxi, 189 pages; Signed by Author.
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