Decision Order and Time in Human Affairs
2nd Edition
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- Author: G. L. S. Shackle
- Date Published: August 2010
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- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521147491
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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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- Edition: 2nd Edition
- Date Published: August 2010
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521147491
- length: 348 pages
- dimensions: 217 x 140 x 20 mm
- weight: 0.35kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Preface to the second edition
Preface to the first edition
Part I. Time:
1. Decision
2. Imagination, expectation, anticipation
3. The solitary moment
4. Insulated dynamic schemes
5. Three critics
6. Time and decision in sum
Part II. Uncertainty:
7. Uncertainty as probability
8. Professor Niehans on probability
9. Uncertainty as possibility
10. Potential surprise axiomatized
11. Critics of potential surprise
12. Uncertainty in sum
Part III. Ascendancy:
14. A basic model
15. The neutral outcome
16. Cardinality
17. The cardinal potential surprise curve
18. The ascendancy function
19. Focus elements
20. Choice amongst actions
21. Critics of focus elements
22. Mr Egerton's theory of asset portfolios
23. Ascendancy in sum
Part IV. Expectation of Change of Own Expectation:
24. Expectation of change of own expectation
25. The basis of change of expectations
Part V. Some Economic Illustrations:
26. Horizon, interest and investment
27. A theory of the interest rate
28. Profit and the range of non-revision
29. Order and decision in economics
Part VI. Policy, Profit and Decision:
30. Policy, profit and decision
Bibliography
Index.
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