Economics as an Art of Thought: Essays in Memory of G.L.S. Shackle

by Peter Earl (Editor), S FROWEN (Editor)

Overview

This volume unites scholars from all over the world, and with very different theoretical perspectives. Their chapters probe into typical Shacklean themes of time and money, uncertainty and expectation, and into the roots of G.L.S. Shackle's philosophical and methodological stance.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781135633554
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	04/15/2013
Series:	Routledge Studies in the History of Economics
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	464
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Peter E. Earl is Professor of Economics at Lincoln University, Canterbury, New Zealand. Stephen F. Fronwen, formerly Bundebank Professor of the Free University of Berlin, is Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Economics, University College London, UK.

Table of Contents

Introduction Peter E. Earl and Stephen F. Frowen 1. How do we know? Brian J. Loasby 2. Indeterminacy in the economics classroom Peter E. Earl 3. Shackle and institutional economics: some bridges and barriers Geoffrey M. Hodgson 4. George Shackle and Post Keynesianism G.C. Harcourt and Claudio Sardoni 5. On some concepts of rationality in economics Ian Steedman 6. Shackle and the project of the enlightenment: reason, time and imagination Stephen D. Parsons 7. How far can you get with hermeneutics? Shaun P. Hargreaves Heap 8. Uncertainty, private property and business enterprise in the transition to a market economy J.A. Kregel 9. Uncertainty, complexity and imagination Jason Potts 10. Shackle on probability Jochen Runde 11. Liquidity and potential surprise Moacir dos Anjos and Victoria Chick 12. The demand for money in an uncertain world Donald W. Katzner 13. Shackle, imagination and the capital investment decision: a missing link in modern management accounting practice Kenneth C. Cleaver 14. Disreputable adventures: the Shackle papers at Cambridge Stephen C. Littlechild 15. Catalogue of the Shackle papers Kathleen Cann