History of Economic Analysis. Edited from Manuscript by Elizabeth Boody Schumpeter.. This item is unavailable.History of Economic Analysis. Edited from Manuscript by Elizabeth Boody Schumpeter.

First edition, first printing. Royal 8vo. xxv, [1], 1260 pp. Original green cloth, spine lettered in silver, dust jacket (partial offsetting to front endpapers, contents otherwise clean and fresh; only minor shelf wear to extremities of jacket, two short closed tears to head of front joint and front panel, withal a near fine and notably sharp copy). New York, Oxford University Press. The authoritative history of economic thought from Ancient Greece to the end of the Second World War - complete with a particularly nice example of the uncommon dust jacket. "Over many years, Schumpeter had worked on what was intended to become his magnum opus, the History of Economic Analysis (1954). At his death it remained unfinished, but the manuscript was edited and published by his wife. Even in this form it is an overwhelming work. The sketch of 1914 had grown into a monumental tapestry. The three-four beat of Hegelian dialectics that Schumpeter had transferred from the Marxian class struggle to business cycles is now imposed on the history of economics: scientific revolutions are supposed to merge into 'classical situations,' which, after a while, set the stage for a new revolution. The display of erudition, though somewhat theatrical, is stupendous. As a historian of economic thought from antiquity to the present day in the context of general social and intellectual developments, Schumpeter has no equal" (Niehans, 450).