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Author Shackle, G. L. S., author

Title Epistemics and Economics : a Critique of Economic Doctrines / G.L.S. Shackle
Edition First edition
Published London : Taylor and Francis, 2017

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Contents Cover ; Half Title ; Title Page ; Copyright Page ; Dedication ; Table of Contents ; Introduction to the Transaction Edition ; Preface ; Acknowledgments ; BOOK I ECONOMIC THEORY AND THE SCHEME OF THINGS ENTIRE ; 1 Economic Theory and the Formal Imagination
2 Time, novelty, geometry 3 Self-subsistent and non-self-subsistent sciences ; 4 Valuation, variety and scalar quantity ; 5 Formal codes and their efficiency ; 6 Orientations ; 7 Reason versus knowledge ; BOOK II THE RISE OF THE RATIONAL IDEAL ; 8 The construct of reason
9 Subjective marginalism 10 The concept of value ; 11 Quantity versus form ; 12 The rational ideal as the core of economic theory ; 13 Cost and the meaning of choice ; 14 Perfect competition and conceptual illusionism ; 15 The value-construct in the round
BOOK III THE DISSOLUTION OF THE RATIONAL IDEAL 16 Expectation: the dissolution of determinacy ; 17 Chapter 2 of the General Theory: two entrances for involuntary unemployment ; 18 Kaleidic investment-values ; 19 Lender's uncertainty and the nature of interest-rates
20 Liquidity: its nature 21 Prices as convention ; 22 The dissolution of rational determinacy ; BOOK IV STATICS: THE REJECTION OF TIME ; 23 The calculus and the subjective ideal ; 24 Simultaneous equations and the market ideal ; 25 Partial equilibrium ; 26 The rejection of time
Summary "It is Shackle's view that human conduct is chosen with a view to its consequences. But these are in the future, which cannot be directly known. Expectation will confine itself to what is deemed possible, but this leaves it free to entertain widely diverse and rival hypotheses. How can such skeins of mutually conflicting ideas serve the formation of individual or institutional policy? This is the chief question this book examines."--Provided by publisher
Subject Economics.
Epistemics.
Time and economic reactions.
Economics
economics.
Economics
Epistemics
Time and economic reactions
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781351311649
1351311646