Six Pretty Good Books explores the social sciences through books by prominent authors including Steven Pinker, Nicholas Christakis, Robert Frank, Duncan Watts, and Dan Aridly.
Shackle's early work was more aridly mathematical; perhaps he was still winning his professional spurs and could not yet presume to express ideas with only insight and poetic prowess to back them.
Like several Nobel Laureates before him, Aridly draws from experimental observations to determine how people actually function in the marketplace, instead of assuming they act rationally, as in classical economics.
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