Money Versus Man

London: Mathew Elkins, 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Near Fine. The New Ideas Library No. 4. About Very Good in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped (3s. 6d. net), lightly bumped at the edges. Red cloth, rubbed and mottled, with black ink lettering and designs on the spine. Square and firmly bound, foxed at the top edge, toned at the endpapers, clean otherwise. A work on economics by the Nobel Prize-winning English Chemist. Published two years before the US printing, in this work Soddy rails against modern economic theory and money in general, arguing that value should be tied to nature. While his work was widely read during his time, he is now viewed as an early ecological economist.