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Uncertainty about Uncertainty

In: Foundations for New Economic Thinking

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  • Sheila C. Dow

    (University of Stirling)

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‘To teach how to live without certainty, and yet without being paralysed by hesitation, is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can still do for those who study it’ (Russell, 1946, p. 14).

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  • Sheila C. Dow, 2012. "Uncertainty about Uncertainty," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Foundations for New Economic Thinking, chapter 5, pages 72-82, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-137-00072-9_5
    DOI: 10.1057/9781137000729_5
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    1. Ronald Schettkat, 2020. "Micro-Foundations of Diverging Economic Policies: Keynesian, Behavioural, Neoclassic," Intereconomics: Review of European Economic Policy, Springer;ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics;Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS), vol. 55(2), pages 105-111, March.
    2. Daniel Leunbach & Truls Erikson & Max Rapp-Ricciardi, 2020. "Muddling through Akerlofian and Knightian uncertainty: The role of sociobehavioral integration, positive affective tone, and polychronicity," Journal of International Entrepreneurship, Springer, vol. 18(2), pages 145-164, June.
    3. Dow, Sheila, 2016. "Uncertainty: A diagrammatic treatment," Economics - The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal (2007-2020), Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW Kiel), vol. 10, pages 1-25.
    4. Sheila C. Dow, 2014. "The role of belief in the debate over austerity policies," Working Papers PKWP1409, Post Keynesian Economics Society (PKES).
    5. Sheila C Dow, 2015. "The role of belief in the case for austerity policies," The Economic and Labour Relations Review, , vol. 26(1), pages 29-42, March.
    6. Hamid Etemad, 2020. "Managing uncertain consequences of a global crisis: SMEs encountering adversities, losses, and new opportunities," Journal of International Entrepreneurship, Springer, vol. 18(2), pages 125-144, June.
    7. Ronald Schettkat, 2018. "The Behavioral Economics of John Maynard Keynes," Schumpeter Discussion Papers sdp18007, Universitätsbibliothek Wuppertal, University Library.

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