| Decision Order and Time in Human Affairs Revised Edition Contributor(s): Shackle, G. L. S. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0521147492 ISBN-13: 9780521147491 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $51.29 Product Type: Paperback Published: June 2010 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Business & Economics | Economics - General |
| Dewey: 330.018 |
| Physical Information: 0.78" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.97 lbs) 348 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Originally published in 1969, the second edition of Professor Shackle's book has a fresh preface, an extra chapter and a number of additions to its bibliography. The extra chapter is concerned with the point at which one would decide to abandon an old policy and replace it with a new one. It is, in the words of the author, a further, rather radical development of the Stockholm sequence analysis. Professor Shackle examines how a decision can be rational only in a special sense, that of exploiting to the best present effect, on the decision-maker's state of mind, the scope afforded to imagination by what is known and by the gaps in that knowledge. The attempt made in this book to provide a theory of such decision has been called 'an existentialist economics'. |
