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Synopsis
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'.
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Book Description
Originally published in 1969, Professor Shackle's book examines how a decision is made by exploiting the best present effect, the scope afforded to imagination by what is known and by the gaps in that knowledge. This second edition has a fresh preface, an extra chapter and a number of additions to its bibliography.
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- PublisherCambridge University Press
- Publication date1970
- ISBN 10 0521077117
- ISBN 13 9780521077118
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number2
- Number of pages346
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