WEBB, Sidney.

How to pay for the war.

London, The Fabian Society, 1916. 8vo, pp. xv, [1] blank, 278, [2] advertisement leaves + 12 page publisher’s catalogue; dedication inscription from Sidney Webb to Professor Philip Bradley attached to front pastedown; autograph letter, signed, from Webb to Bradley loosely inserted. First edition. Although attributed to Webb, the present work is actually the product of the Fabian Research Department of which he was a founding member. The report is concerned with ways of avoiding being hampered by the debts incurred during the First World ar after hostilities have ceased and center on profitable government institutions. Those mooted include the Post Office, Railways and canals, a nationalised insurance department and a reform of income tax. Many of the recommendations were accepted, often in a revised form, by the governments of the post-war era.

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