Economic Theory and Operations Analysis, second edition, by William J. Baumol, Professor of Economics at Princeton University. Hardcover, trade cloth, 1965, printed in the United States by Prentice-Hall Inc. This is an ex-library book with stamps and markings inside covers, on title pages, and along outer page edges. Bar code sticker on back cover, pocket with due date slip inside back cover, and spine label. Last pages are separating from binding as pictured above. Pages are all crisp and clean with no other markings. Cover shows fading and scuffed/torn corners and edges.

From the Preface:

The subject of this book is economic theory, not operations research. The volume is intended to offer the reader both a systematic exposition of received microeconomic analysis, and an intuitive grasp of the many recent developments in mathematical economics that have too long remained a mystery in the private possession of the specialists(who, it must be admitted, have always been willing and anxious to share their secrets). The discussions of applications of economic theory to the tools of operations research and to business analysis are primarily illustrative, and though a considerable portion of the body of operations research equipment is described, the result can by no means be considered to constitute a survey of the field. As one reader has suggested, this book is intended to ne more helpful to an operations researcher who wishes to learn economics than to an economist who desires a systematic education in operations research.

No doubt it is in the nature of things that revised versions of books appear as "second edition-expanded." This book is no exception. Though two chapters from the first edition have been expunged, on balance the book has grown at a rate not too dissimilar to the GNP.