Business, Time and Thought

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.

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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.