Economics for Pleasure.

First edition. 8vo. ix, [1], 269, [1] pp. Original pink cloth, spine lettered in gilt, dust jacket (small amount of faint spotting to endpapers and edges of text block, neat pencilled ownership inscription to front free endpaper, otherwise internally clean and unmarked; light wear to extremities, still a very good copy overall). Cambridge, At the University Press.

A popular introductory work centred around real-world, relatable examples to elucidate the core concepts of economic theory.

G.L.S. Shackle's 'contributions to economics were wide-ranging but focused on the treatment of time, expectations, and decision-making under conditions of uncertainty, his greatest theoretical innovation being the development of a non-probabilistic theory of decision-making' (ODNB). His later works were motived by 'a fundamental criticism of the whole of received economic theory for ignoring the problem of pervasive uncertainty' (Blaug, Great Economists since Keynes).

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