Edward Elgar publishers, in association with the Institute of Economic Affairs, are about to launch a revised Second Edition of the must-read-book by my favourite economist Steven Kates: Free Market Economics. An Introduction to the General Reader.
Find my review of the first edition here.
The author gives us a little personal background information on the book's cover:
That is very likely the mill from which the plaque has been modelled. I wished to have a cover that showed a water mill made of clay because the two most important influences on me have been John Stuart Mill and the English economist, Henry Clay. My wife, bless her, found just such a combination on the net as the plaque was being sold just then. I therefore bought it, photographed it and now the clay representation of a mill is on the cover. I also like it because it is both nineteenth century and part of the productive apparatus of an economy. And it fits in with my understanding of Jean-Baptiste Say whose factory producing textiles was driven by a water mill. Finally, I just think it’s beautiful. I could not think of a better cover. My profound thanks to Ant for conjuring the origins up.
The source.
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