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G. L. S. Shackle
Economics is as wholly entangled with time as is history. It is within this framework that Professor Shackle takes a critical look at business decisions and in so doing brings…
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It is Shackle’s view that human conduct is chosen with a view to its consequences
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First published in 1952, as the second edition of a 1949 original, this book contains a discussion of the role of expectation in relation to the workings of the economy…
Economics is very much a part of our lives; yet most of us know little of the meaning of ‘inflation’ or ‘productivity’. In this 1968 book, Professor Shackle bridges the…
Originally published in 1969, Professor Shackle’s book examines how a decision is made by exploiting the best present effect, the scope afforded to imagination by what is known and by…
Professor Shackle’s book is written along the lines of a Greek dialogue which presents an extremely condensed version of a mass of accepted economic insights. The author aims questions at…
Professor Shackle seeks a single, unified and coherent basis which would serve for all economic theories, particularly in regard to their treatment of time and to the possibility of acquiring…
Originally published in 1966, this volume contains a collection of Professor Shackle’s articles, all concerned in some way to show his approach to economic thought, which was his belief that…
In this classic book, first published in 1967, Professor Shackle provides a study, in exact and professional language, of the precise nature, structure, presuppositions, language and inter-relations of the theories…
Stephen F. Frowen
A collection of papers dicussing unknowledge and choice in economics. The topics focus especially on G.L.S.Shackle’s theories and his place in subjectivist thought but also include time, choice and dynamics…
G. L. S. Shackle (University of Liverpool)
This book is a collection of some of Professor Shackle’s papers written between 1939 and 1953 is largely concerned with the problems of ‘expectation’ and ‘uncertainty’ and with reducing these…
G.L.S. Shackle
Production is a complex system of interdependent activities. Concerned with the nature and mode of life of the firm as a means of policy formation in the face of uncertainty…
Production is a complex system of interdependent activities, necessary to the system as a whole, which itself depends on the continuance of each individual activity that composes it
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
This work is in the public…
