G L S ShackleEpistemics and Economics
A Critique of Economic Doctrines
THEORY AND THE SCHEME OF THINGS ENTIRE
1. Economic Theory and the Formal Imagination
2. Time
novelty
geometry
3. Self-subsistent and non-self-subsistent sciences
4. Valuation
variety and scalar quantity
5. Formal codes and their efficiency
6. Orientations
7. Reason versus knowledge
BOOK II. THE RISE OF THE RATIONAL IDEAL
8. The construct of reason
9. Subjective marginalism
10. The concept of value
11. Quantity versus form
12. The rational ideal as the core of economic theory
13. Cost and the meaning of choice
14. Perfect competition and conceptual illusionism
15. The value-construct in the round
BOOK III. THE DISSOLUTION OF THE RATIONAL IDEAL
16. Expectation: the dissolution of determinacy
17. Chapter 2 of the General Theory: two entrances for involuntary unemployment
18. Kaleidic investment-values
19. Lender's uncertainty and the nature of interest-rates
20. Liquidity: its nature
21. Prices as convention
22. The dissolution of rational determinacy
BOOK IV. STATICS: THE REJECTION OF TIME
23. The calculus and the subjective ideal
24. Simultaneous equations and the market ideal
25. Partial equilibrium
26. The rejection of time
BOOK V. DIACHRONISM: THE ARTEFACT OF TIME
27. Diachronism: the assimilation of time to space
28. Marshall's accommodation of time
29. Capital
or the time-net of production
30. Business cycle engines
31. History
theory and world-picture
32. The sovereignty of theory
BOOK VI. EPISTEMICS VERSUS AXIOMATICS
33. The science of imprecision
34. Languages for expectation
35. Profit
36. Game theory's exclusion of tactical surprise
37. Kaleidic economics
38. Economic theory unbound
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