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G. L. S. Shackle: A Brief Bio‐Bibliographical Portrait
J.L. FordGeorge Lennox Sharman Shackle is now in his 82nd year having been born on 14 July 1903. Yet during the 25 years that I have known him (beginning when I was an undergraduate at the…
Smith and Shackle: History and Epistemics
Andrew S. SkinnerThis article does not constitute a commentary on George Shackle either as an economist or as an historian. Rather it sets out to explain the reference to Smith which was…
Profit, Expectations and Coherence in Economic Systems
Brian J. LoasbyProfessor Shackle is the most courteous, the most erudite, and the most radical critic of orthodox economics. The concept of profit, which apparently serves as such a convenient…
How Economists can Accept Shackle's Critique of Economic Doctrines without Arguing Themselves out of their Jobs
Peter E. Earl, Neil M. KayThe methodology of mainstream neoclassical economics deals with knowledge deficiency problems in a deterministic manner and as “refinements to the theory of economic action rather…
Shackle's Theory of Decision Making under Uncertainty: Synopsis and Brief Appraisal
J.L. FordIn recent years Professor Shackle's numerous, highly imaginative and original works on the role of expectation and uncertainty in the modelling of economic behaviour have at last…
The Possibility of Possibility
John D. HeyIt is now over 35 years since Professor Shackle published his masterly Expectation in Economics, therein formalising and synthesising his innovative work of the previous decade…
Professor Shackle and the Liquidity Preference Theory of Interest Rates
Peter G. McGregorProfessor Shackle has long maintained both the originality of the liquidity preference theory of interest rates and its paramount importance for macroeconomics. He has argued, for…
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