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Hard cover, 8vo., pp viii 9-158 + 2pp ads + foldout chart. In publisher's navy cloth binding with gold lettering to spine, and including scarce dust jacket. Condition: Very Good in like dust jacket (now protected in mylar), but with some chips to dust jacket and some wear to the top & bottom edges of the covers. ** Written in the aftermath of WWI, this work attempts to draw parallels between the economic situation in Europe in the 1920s, versus the conditions after the Napoleonic wars of the previous century. The author discusses the settlement after the Napoleonic wars, taxation, expenditure, debt, and the problem of maintaining (or not) the gold standard. *** The author, Angus Whiteford Acworth (1898-1981), was a financier and keen conservationist. He visited Jamaica in 1946 at the request of the Jamaican Historical Association, and published "Treasure in the Caribbean: A First Study of Georgian Buildings in the British West Indies" in 1949. OCLC 3932589.
Ref: ECON 8605
$145.00