VON HAYEK, FRIEDRICH A. 1899-1992.
Profits, Interest and Investment and Other Essays on the Theory of Industrial Fluctuations. London: George Routledge and Sons, 1939.
8vo. Original red cloth, spine lettered in gilt; dust jacket. Light shelfwear to head and tail of spine, bookseller's ticket and penciled notes to f.f.e; jacket soiled, chipping at head and tail of spine, 7/6 ticket to lower right of front flap; spine with chipping and holes, and both fore-edges reinforced from the verso with paper.
Provenance: Owen Horwood (1916-1998, South African Finance Minister, 1975-1984, ownership stamp to f.f.e.).

FIRST EDITION IN THE RARE DUST JACKET, South Africaan economist and Finance Minister Owen Horwood's copy. Friedrich Von Hayek was an Austrian-born economist who spent much of his career at the London School of Economics. He was, with Gunnar Myrdal, awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1974 for work 'on money and economic fluctuations and the interdependence of economic, social and institutional phenomena' (nobelprize.org/prizes/economic-sciences/1974/summary).
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