A biography of the 20th-century economist, George Shackle, whose contributions to issues of time, expectations and uncertainty made his reputation. Shackle opposed equilibrium-centred orthodoxy, concentrating on a concept of time-uncertainty which emphasized the degree of potential surprise.

This title focuses on key aspects of government policy, financial systems and their link to the economic miracle in Pacific and South East Asia. It examines the success of governance in the deregulation of markets and recovering from the economic crises which have affected the financial progress of the Asian economies. The book includes contributions on financial market openings in developing vountries; the impact of FDI on the economic growth of the ASEAN economies; governance, human capital, labour and endogenous growth in Asia Pacific; and lessons from the financial crisis as well as an...

Open economy macroeconomics is a major focus of research interest stimulated in part by the increasing interdependence of the world economy and by the move towards floating exchange rates. This important new book addresses several central issues in the macroeconomic theory of different forms of open economies under differing degrees of dependency.