1st Edition

Expectation, Enterprise and Profit

By G.L.S. Shackle Copyright 1970
    160 Pages
    by Routledge

    160 Pages
    by Routledge

    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.

    1. The Nature of Production2. The Matrix of Production3. The Firm's Tests of Rightness4. Investment5. Expectation6. Interdependent Decision-Making7. Profit and Equilibrium

    Biography

    G L S Shackle