Decision Order and Time in Human Affairs - Hardcover

Shackle, G. L. S.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521077117 ISBN 13: 9780521077118

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1970

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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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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 1970
• ISBN 10: 0521077117
• ISBN 13: 9780521077118
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 346