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George Shackle is one of the most original thinkers in the history of economics. His seminal contributions have been many, and they have almost all been concerned with the very fundamentals of the discipline of economics, namely the study and analysis of behaviour under uncertainty. The contributions that he has made in that field have embraced both macroeconomic theory and microeconomic theory.
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Ford, J.L. (1990). Shackle’s Theory of Decision-Making under Uncertainty: A Brief Exposition and Critical Assessment. In: Frowen, S.F. (eds) Unknowledge and Choice in Economics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-08097-7_3
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