The Years of High Theory: Invention and Tradition in Economic Thought 1926–1939 - Hardcover

Shackle, G. L. S.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521062799 ISBN 13: 9780521062794

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1967

Synopsis

Even a decade after the end of the 1914–1918 war, economic theory assumed that the world was tranquil and orderly. By 1939 an economic slump without parallel, allied to the re-emergence of military ambition in Europe, had brought economic theorists face to face with reality. In this classic book, first published in 1967, Professor Shackle provides a study, in exact and professional language, of the precise nature, structure, presuppositions, language and inter-relations of the theories which were formulated in these fourteen years - unparalleled in the whole history of economics except perhaps by the years of the Physiocrats and Adam Smith. These theories are not prototypes on the way to something better but are of essential and permanent importance.

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Book Description

In this classic book, first published in 1967, Professor Shackle provides a study, in exact and professional language, of the precise nature, structure, presuppositions, language and inter-relations of the theories formulated between 1926 and 1939, when the post-war notion of a tranquil world was shattered by economic crisis.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 1967
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521062799
• ISBN 13: 9780521062794
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 336