Business, time and thought : selected papers of G.L.S. Shackle

Author(s)

• Shackle, G. L. S. (George Lennox Sharman)
• Frowen, Stephen F.

Bibliographic Information

Business, time and thought : selected papers of G.L.S. Shackle

edited by Stephen F. Frowen

Macmillan, 1988

Note

Includes indexes

Description and Table of Contents

Description

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 the philosophical problems right into the market place.

Table of Contents

• Origination of choice
• means and meaning in economic theory
• "treatise" theory and time
• cantillon far ahead of his time
• the bounds of unknowledge
• Harrod as economist
• levels of simplicity in Keynes's theory of money and employment
• on Hick's causality in economics
• on the nature of profit
• the romantic mountain and the classic lake
• Alan Coddington's Keynesian Economics
• marginalism - the harvest
• new tracts for economic theory 1926 - 39
• Hayek as economist
• Keynes the meeting-point of history and thought
• Sir John Hicks IS-LM - an explanation - a comment - controlling industrial economies
• markets, entrepreneurs and liberty
• news from Sweden
• a student's pilgrimage.

by "Nielsen BookData"

• NCID: BA0453655X
• ISBN:
  • 033339481X
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Basingstoke, Hampshire
• Pages/Volumes: xiii, 255 p., [1] leaf of plates
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : HB72
  • DC19 : 330.1
  • NDC6 : 331.1
• Subject Headings:
  • PRECIS : Economics. Theories - Philosophical perspectives
  • LCSH : Economics -- Philosophy