1,549 works, 150 years of economic thought. Each one summarized and searchable, with cited passages inside.
George L. S. Shackle, “The Multiplier in Closed and Open Systems” Shackle’s article is a compact theoretical reconstruction of the Keynesian multiplier...
George L. S. Shackle, “The Nature and Role of Profit” — Summary Shackle’s essay is a conceptual inquiry into whether “profit” can retain a precise role in economic theory once production is understood as an action throug...
George Lennox Sharman Shackle, “The Nature of Interest-Rates” (1949/1955) Genre and scope: Shackle’s text is a single-author theoretical article in monetary economics, first published in Oxford Economic Papers and later...
George L. S. Shackle, “Three Versions of the $\phi$-Surface: Some Notes for a Comparison” — Summary Shackle’s note compares two proposed revisions of his $\phi$-surface, by J. Mars and H. G...
Summary: “Twenty Years On: A Survey of the Theory of the Multiplier” Shackle’s essay is at once a historical commemoration and a conceptual clarification of multiplier theory...
George L. S. Shackle, “What Makes an Economist?” (1953/1955) Shackle’s essay is a reflective lecture on economic formation: part epistemology, part disciplinary map, part educational manifesto...
G. L. S. Shackle, “Policy, Poetry, and Success” (1968) Shackle’s address argues that business policy is not best understood as applied arithmetic, optimization, or probability calculus, but as an “originative art” conduc...
G. L. S. Shackle, Keynesian Kaleidics (1974) Shackle reads Keynes’s Treatise on Money and General Theory as one unfinished attempt to make economics adequate to uncertainty...
G. L. S. Shackle, Imagination and the Nature of Choice (1979) Shackle’s book is at once a theory of choice, a critique of deterministic economics, and a phenomenology of time...
Foreword — Summary This file is a brief foreword. Shackle’s scope is prefatory and conceptual: he frames Mr Shand’s book as a major survey of subjectivist thought, while also offering his own compressed statement of what...