The Years of High Theory: Invention and Tradition in Economic Thought 1926-1939

by George L. Shackle and G.L.S. Shackle

Book Overview

Even a decade after the end of the 1914-1918 war, economic theory assumed that the world was tranquil and orderly. By 1939 an economic slump without parallel, allied to the re-emergence of military ambition in Europe, had brought economic theorists face to face with reality. In this classic book, first published in 1967, Professor Shackle provides a study, in exact and professional language, of the precise nature, structure, presuppositions, language...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521274788
• ISBN13: 9780521274784
• Release Date: April 1983
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 338 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"