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G.L.S. Shackle

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  1. Peter E. Earl

    1. University of Queensland, Australia

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  2. Bruce Littleboy

    1. University of Queensland, Australia

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Part of the book series: Great Thinkers in Economics (GTE)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Introduction

    • Peter E. Earl, Bruce Littleboy
    Pages 1-6

  3. Life and Vision

    • Peter E. Earl, Bruce Littleboy
    Pages 7-29

  4. Shackle’s Economics

    • Peter E. Earl, Bruce Littleboy
    Pages 30-50

  5. Possibility versus Probability: The Rhetoric of Choice

    • Peter E. Earl, Bruce Littleboy
    Pages 51-83

  6. Potential Surprise and Choice

    • Peter E. Earl, Bruce Littleboy
    Pages 84-108

  7. Critical Perspectives on Shackle’s Theory

    • Peter E. Earl, Bruce Littleboy
    Pages 109-137

  8. Making Sense of Diversification

    • Peter E. Earl, Bruce Littleboy
    Pages 138-153

  9. Shackle and Behavioural Economics

    • Peter E. Earl, Bruce Littleboy
    Pages 154-179

  10. Lessons for Economists, Entrepreneurs and Business Schools

    • Peter E. Earl, Bruce Littleboy
    Pages 180-197

  11. The Passage of Time: Shackle, Shell and Scenarios

    • Michael Jefferson
    Pages 198-214

  12. Coda

    • Peter E. Earl, Bruce Littleboy
    Pages 215-217

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 218-246
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About this book

This is an intellectual biography of G.L.S. Shackle, economic theorist, philosopher, and historian of economic theory. It explores how Shackle challenged the aims, methods and assumptions of mainstream economics. He stressed macroeconomic instability, and developed a radically subjectivist theory for behavioural economics and business planning.

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“This intellectual history of the English economist George Lennox Sharman Shackle is part of the Great Thinkers in Economics series. … this book provides a very good introduction to Shackle’s central concern–his theory of choice under uncertainty–and provides an excellent starting point for anyone wishing to become familiar with this important heterodox thinker.” (Gene Callahan, Journal of the History of Economic Thought, Vol. 38 (4), December, 2016)

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Queensland, Australia

    Peter E. Earl, Bruce Littleboy

About the authors

Peter Earl is a former co-editor of the Journal of Economic Psychology and is Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Queensland, Australia. His many books include Economics as an Art of Thought: Essays in Memory of G.L.S. Shackle (2000) (editor, with Stephen Frowen).

Bruce Littleboy is Senior Lecturer in Economics at the University of Queensland, Australia. He wrote On Interpreting Keynes (1990) and was awarded a Shackle Studentship at St Edmund's College Cambridge in 2011.

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