The Years of High Theory: Invention and Tradition in Economic Thought 1926 1939 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521274784)

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 and inter-relations of the theories which were formulated in these fourteen years - unparalleled in the whole history of economics except perhaps by the years of the Physiocrats and Adam Smith. These theories are not prototypes on the way to something better but are of essential and permanent importance.

Author: G. L. S. Shackle,George L. Shackle,R. G. S. Shackle
ISBN-10: 0521274788
ISBN-13: 9780521274784
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 03/03/1983
Pages: 338
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.76d