ABSTRACT
It is Shackle's view that human conduct is chosen with a view to its consequences. But these are in the future, which cannot be directly known. Expectation will confine itself to what is deemed possible, but this leaves it free to entertain widely diverse and rival hypotheses. How can such skeins of mutually conflicting ideas serve the formation of individual or institutional policy? This is the chief question this book examines.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|86 pages
Economic Theory and the Scheme of Things Entire
part II|65 pages
The Rise of the Rational Ideal
part III|88 pages
The Dissolution of the Rational Ideal
part IV|33 pages
Statics: The Rejection of Time
part V|81 pages
Diachronism: The Artefact of Time
part VI|92 pages
Epistemics versus Axiomatics