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

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

edited by Stephen F. Frowen

Macmillan, 1988

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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.

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