Shackle

Samira Shackle looks at some of the long-term ramifications.

Introduction to the professional competition 2011

And Shackle did the most to "operationalize" or at least evangelize the brilliance of Keynes' work on this subject.

Roger Koppl - The Austrian Economists 2008

Now I am familiar with Buchanan's work on Shackle.

Roger Koppl - The Austrian Economists 2008

As Shackle himself confessed once in a letter to Frowen, "It is the philosophical aspect of economics that I have always been mainly interested in."

Roger Koppl - The Austrian Economists 2008

However, I would really encourage you to read James Buchanan with the same degree of intensity that you read Shackle.

Roger Koppl - The Austrian Economists 2008

They are in their "system-building" years, years of "high theory" as Shackle would call it; unwilling to commit to any cause and always open to incorporate new insights from obscure and hidden corners.

Humans as Creators Not Destroyers - The Austrian Economists 2008

This is what I mean when I say Shackle with price theory --- it is the way to move from solipicism to social order.

Roger Koppl - The Austrian Economists 2008

I remember that Buchanan spoke very kindly of Shackle in "Natural and Artifactual Man" and "The Constitutional Implications of Subjectivism".

Roger Koppl - The Austrian Economists 2008

Now my reading of Keynes may be unique, but I have always understood him to mean with the assistance of Minsky and Shackle that all knowledge claims are mere conventions that are devised in order to deceive people into acting.

Roger Koppl - The Austrian Economists 2008

But it must be remembered that these "conventions" or "illusions", as Shackle called them, are always and everywhere unstable; and the slightest change in the "news" will reveal quickly just how tenuous our knowledge claims really are.

Roger Koppl - The Austrian Economists 2008