{"product_id":"9780521147491","title":"Decision Order and Time in Human Affairs","description":"Originally published in 1969, the second edition of Professor Shackle's book has a fresh preface, an extra chapter and a number of additions to its bibliography. The extra chapter is concerned with the point at which one would decide to abandon an old policy and replace it with a new one. It is, in the words of the author, a further, rather radical development of the Stockholm sequence analysis. Professor Shackle examines how a decision can be rational only in a special sense, that of exploiting to the best present effect, on the decision-maker's state of mind, the scope afforded to imagination by what is known and by the gaps in that knowledge. The attempt made in this book to provide a theory of such decision has been called 'an existentialist economics'.","brand":"G. L. S. Shackle","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45779661488446,"sku":"9780521147491","price":2238.09,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4357\/7662\/products\/9780521147491_2b58793d-aacc-4e01-9bae-a13cdde311ab.jpg?v=1707291120","url":"https:\/\/exclusivebooks.co.za\/products\/9780521147491","provider":"Exclusive Books Online","version":"1.0","type":"link"}