Uncertainty in Economics and Other Reflections

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Preface
Author's note for C. U. P. L. E. reprint
Acknowledgements
Bibliography
Part I. On Expectation and Uncertainty:
1. Probability and uncertainty
2. On the meaning and measure of uncertainty: I
3. On the meaning and measure of uncertainty: II
4. The logic of surprise
5. Expectation in Economics: some critics answered
6. A non-additive measure of uncertainty
7. Three versions of the ø-surface
8. The economist's view of profit
9. The nature and role of profit
Part II. On Interest-Rates:
10. The nature of interest-rates
11. Interest-rates and the pace of investment
Part III. On Investment and Employment:
12. The multiplier in closed and open systems
13. Twenty years on: a survey of the theory of the multiplier
14. Myrdal's analysis of monetary equilibrium
15. The deflative or inflative tendency of government receipts and disbursements
Part IV. On the Philosophy of Economics:
16. A chart of economic theory
17. Economics and sincerity
18. What makes an economist?
Index.

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