The End of Laissez-Faire

E-163: Hogarth Press. Very Good. 1926. Hardcover. Hardcover. 12mo. Published by Leonard & Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press, London, UK. 1926. 53 pgs. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in blue-grey cloth backed grey boards, white paper title label to spine printed in black. Boards have shelf-wear present to the extremities (boards discolored to the edges of the boards). Previous owner's name present to the FFEP. Offsetting present to the endpapers. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. In The End of Laissez-Faire (1926) he presents a brief historical review of laissez-faire economic policy. Though he agrees in principle that a marketplace of free individuals pursuing their own self-interest without government interference has a better chance of improving society’s economic situation than socialist alternatives, he suggests that government can play a constructive role in protecting individuals from the worst harms of capitalism’s cycles, especially as concerns unemployment. Other useful government functions are the dissemination of information relating to business conditions, encouraging savings and investment along "nationally productive channels," and forming a national policy about the size of population. EB .