1,549 works, 150 years of economic thought. Each one summarized and searchable, with cited passages inside.
G. L. S. Shackle, “‘Expectation in Economics’: Some Critics Answered” This short note, first published in 1949, is Shackle’s reply to critics of Expectation in Economics...
Summary — George L. S. Shackle, “A Chart of Economic Theory” Shackle’s essay offers a compact map of economic theory after Keynes, organizing inherited doctrines by the kind of time, knowledge, and adjustment each assume...
Short theoretical article: Shackle’s “A Non-Additive Measure of Uncertainty” This short theoretical journal article clarifies a central feature of Shackle’s Expectation in Economics: uncertainty cannot be represented by...
George L. S. Shackle, “Economics and Sincerity” (1953) This file is a single-author methodological essay. Shackle asks what it means for an economist to believe a theory, and whether ethical practice requires using only...
G. L. S. Shackle, “Interest-Rates and the Pace of Investment” (1946/1955) Shackle’s essay asks why a familiar theory of investment seemed to conflict with business testimony gathered by the Oxford Economists’ Research Gr...
Shackle, “Myrdal’s Analysis of Monetary Equilibrium” Shackle’s essay is a selective theoretical reconstruction of Gunnar Myrdal’s Monetary Equilibrium, framed as a claim about its place in interwar monetary theory rather...
This file is a single-author theoretical article in economics. Shackle’s essay attacks the assumption that economic choice can be modeled as choice among known satisfactions...
George Lennox Sharman Shackle, “On the Meaning and Measure of Uncertainty: II” (1953) Shackle’s essay develops a theory of decision under uncertainty for cases where action is singular, consequential, and not assimilable...
George L. S. Shackle, “Probability and Uncertainty” (1949/1955) Shackle’s essay is a theoretical critique of the assumption that probability, understood as frequency-ratio probability, can guide all rational choice...
George L. S. Shackle, “The Deflative or Inflative Tendency of Government Receipts and Disbursements” Shackle’s article, first published in 1947, is a theoretical account of fiscal action as a force acting on monetary dem...
Summary: George L. S. Shackle, “The Economist’s View of Profit” This is a single-author theoretical essay, first published for accountants but addressed to economic theory...
The Logic of Surprise — Summary George Lennox Sharman Shackle’s “The Logic of Surprise” is a compact theoretical essay in expectation theory, published as an Economica note, that asks how a person can coherently anticipa...