Benn, Ernest

The State The Enemy

London: Ernest Benn, Ltd, [1953].

First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a very good dust jacket. 174 pp, clothbound. Fine copy in an unclipped dust jacket with rubbing to rear panel, a minor chip to rear panel; repairs to spine ends with archival tape. After advocating for state intervention in economic affairs while employed as civil servant in the during the First World War, Benn changed his mind in the 1920s and wrote extensively in support of laissez-faire capitalism.

Item #24098

Price: $60.00