G.L.S. Shackle made numerous, pioneering contributions to the study
of uncertainty in economic life. This volume studies the production
process, where resources must be committed to specific
technological purposes long in advance of the ultimate sale of
goods to the consumer. The problems of such a system rest on the
durability of the instruments it uses, whose huge expense can only
be recouped if they can be used for many years. Yet at the time of
investment, those years of use are in the future and uncertain.
The firm is the essential institutional means of confronting this
uncertainty. Expectation, Enterprise and Profit is concerned with
the nature and mode of life of the firm as a means of policy
formation in the face of uncertainty.
Chapters include:
The Nature and Matrix of Production, Investment and Expectation,
Interdependent Decision-Making and Profit and Equilibrium.
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