This brief scholarly reply endorses Gould’s argument and identifies decision-making as a central problem for the human sciences. Shackle opens with admiration for Gould’s “incisive and commanding argument,” then broadens the significance of their exchange:
Decision-making is, perhaps, of all problems that the human sciences have thrown up, the richest and most central.
The qualification “perhaps” tempers an otherwise expansive claim. Shackle closes by affirming Gould’s proposed paths of inquiry. The note’s contribution is this explicit endorsement and statement of research priority; it supplies no further account of the methods or arguments being endorsed.
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