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

ISBN-13: 9780415101622 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 452 str.

Stephan Boehm; Stephen F. Frowen; John Pheby

Opis

Economists can no longer feel that they operate in a world of certainties. Ever since the demise of the era of macroeconomic fine tuning in the 1970s, with its exaggerated belief in the efficacy of policy making, economists have been confronted with a global economic and political environment which is subject to increasingly rapid change. It is no longer a world which is easy to interpret. It is, to use G.L.S. Shackle's word, kaledic. In the refiguration of economic thought that has been taking place in recent years in response to these changes, the work of G.L.S. Shackle (1903-1992) occupies a special place. This volume unites scholars from all over the world, and with very different theoretical perspectives. The chapters probe into typical Shacklean themes of time and money, uncertainty and expectation, and into the roots of his philosophical and methodological stance.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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.