BAUMAN RARE BOOKS 54 “The Most Famous Methodological Piece Within 20th Century Economics” 70FRIEDMAN, Milton. Essays in Positive Economics. Chicago, 1953. Octavo, original blue cloth, dust jacket. $6500 First edition, containing the first appearance of Friedman’s pivotal essay, “Methodology of Positive Economics.” “The most famous methodological piece within 20th century economics is Milton Friedman’s ‘Methodology of Positive Economics.’ This piece is taken to advocate prediction-ism as the most important goal for and criterion of the success of economic theories” (Schliesser, “The Stigler-Kuhn Correspondence and the Philosophial Prehistory of Prediction in Chicago Economics”). It “remains the most cited, influential, and controversial piece of methodological writing in 20th-century economics. Since its appearance, the essay has shaped the image of economics as a scientific discipline, both within and outside of the academy” (Mäki, The Methodology of Positive Economics, [vi]). Book and price-clipped dust jacket with slight wear to edges and extremities. An extremely good copy in the scarce original dust jacket. Signed Limited Edition Of Basquiat’s Drawings 69BASQUIAT, Jean-Michel. Drawings. Zurich and New York, 1985. Small oblong folio, original gray cloth, dust jacket, custom box. $11,500 Limited first edition, one of 1000 copies signed and numbered by Basquiat, with a portrait frontispiece by New York photographer James van der Zee. “Jean-Michel, contrary to what you might think, absolutely did not consider himself a ‘Graffiti Artist.’ He had always seen himself as a Fine Artist, and his influences ranged from Leonardo Da Vinci to Abstract Expressionists like Cy Twombly and Franz Kline” (John Seed). In March 1985, Basquiat opened his second oneartist show at the Mary Boone Gallery. This is the commemorative book of 32 drawings from that show. Fine condition.
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