von Mises, Ludwig [Author]; Batson, H. E. [Translator]

THE THEORY OF MONEY AND CREDIT [Inscribed to Jasper Crane]

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1953. Second US Edition, First Printing. Octavo, 493 pages. In Very Good minus condition. Bound in publisher's green cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. Scuffing and light sunning to spine. Mild rubbing to head and tail of spine and to corners of boards. Minor bumping to top edge of front board. Minor staining to top edge of textblock. Princeton University Department of Economics bookplate adhered to front pastedown. Inscribed by Mises on front free endpaper: "To Mr. Jasper E. Crane with kindest regards / L. Mises." Light age toning throughout textblock. DL Consignment Shelved in Case 5.

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The Second US Edition, following the 1912 Vienna, 1924 German, 1934 First UK and First English Language, and the 1935 First US Edition. This US Edition is the first with part 4, being on Monetary Reconstruction.

Crane was a plastics expert, executive at DuPont, and libertarian. "Crane actively opposed Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal and the activist state that emerged from the Second World War. Crane was prominently associated with the National Association of Manufacturers, the Foundation for Economic Education, the American School for Economics, and the National Council of the Churches of Christ...Crane's conservative philosophy is also developed in correspondence with Rose Wilder Lane (1887-1968), editor of the National Economic Council's Review of Books. Their correspondence was edited by Roger Lea MacBride as The Lady and the Tycoon: the Best of Letters between Rose Wilder Lane and Jasper Crane (Caldwell, Idaho, 1973)." [Hagley Museum and Library].

Rose Wilder Lane was a major figure in launching the libertarian movement, and her correspondence with Jasper Crane, Frank Meyer, and Ayn Rand form an important basis for study. Combined with Von Mises' influence on the rise of libertarianism, this association copy exemplifies the core of the movement.