Decision Order and Time in Human Affairs
Overview
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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- ISBN-13: 9780521147491
- ISBN-10: 0521147492
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- Publish Date: June 2010
- Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.78 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.97 pounds
- Page Count: 348
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