G.L.S. Shackle

This is an intellectual biography of G.L.S. Shackle, economic theorist, philosopher, and historian of economic theory. It explores how Shackle challenged the aims, methods and assumptions of mainstream economics. He stressed macroeconomic instability, and developed a radically subjectivist theory for behavioural economics and business planning.

Author: P. Earl, Bruce Littleboy
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 06/06/2014
Pages: 246
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.60w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9781137281852

About the Author
Peter Earl is a former co-editor of the Journal of Economic Psychology and is Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Queensland, Australia. His many books include Economics as an Art of Thought: Essays in Memory of G.L.S. Shackle (2000) (editor, with Stephen Frowen).

Bruce Littleboy is Senior Lecturer in Economics at the University of Queensland, Australia. He wrote On Interpreting Keynes (1990) and was awarded a Shackle Studentship at St Edmund's College Cambridge in 2011.