First edition. 8vo. [18], 482 pp. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, dust jacket (contents clean and fresh; jacket price clipped, in all other respects a very fine copy). Cambridge, At the University Press, 1972.
Shackle’s ‘magnum opus’, a deeply philosophical work written after Shackle’s retirement from his long-held tenure at the University of Liverpool, the ‘fullest and most meticulous expression’ of his attack on general equilibrium theory and the reliance that economic theory placed upon mathematics, instead insisting on the pivotal role of time, expectations and uncertainty in economics (An Encylopedia of Keynesian Economics).
