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" uncertain" knowledge, let me explain, I do not mean merely to distinguish what is known for certain from what is only probable. "
John Maynard Keynes - Page 63
by Hyman P. Minsky - 2008 - 181 pages
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The Years of High Theory: Invention and Tradition in Economic Thought 1926-1939

G. L. S. Shackle - Business & Economics - 1967 - 342 pages
...uncertain, renders wealth a peculiarly unsuitable subject for the methods of the classical economic theory. By ' uncertain ' knowledge, let me explain, I do not...distinguish what is known for certain from what is merely probable. The game of roulette is not subject, in this sense, to uncertainty. Or, again, the...
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Individual Forecasting and Aggregate Outcomes: 'Rational Expectations' Examined

Roman Frydman, Edmund S. Phelps - Business & Economics - 1986 - 254 pages
...article, seems to have anticipated the same point. He writes: "By 'uncertain' knowledge, let me explain, 1 do not mean merely to distinguish what is known for...roulette is not subject, in this sense, to uncertainty The sense in which 1 am using the term is that in which the prospect of a European war is uncertain,...
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Methodological Foundations of Macroeconomics: Keynes and Lucas

Alessandro Vercelli - Biography & Autobiography - 1991 - 292 pages
...example, is the following passage of Keynes: By 'uncertain' knowledge, let me explain, I do not mean to distinguish what is known for certain from what...nor is the prospect of a Victory Bond being drawn . . . The sense in which I use the term is that in which the prospect of a European war is uncertain...
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John Maynard Keynes, Critical Assessment: Second series

John Cunningham Wood - Biography & Autobiography - 1994 - 606 pages
..."uncertain" knowledge, let me explain, I do not merely mean to distinguish what is known for certain and what is only probable. The game of roulette is not...nor is the prospect of a Victory Bond being drawn . . . The sense in which I am using the term is that in which the prospect of a European war is uncertain,...
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Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk

Peter L. Bernstein - Business & Economics - 1998 - 404 pages
...Theory, Keynes summed up his views: By "uncertain" knowledge ... I do not mean merely to disnnguish what is known for certain from what is only probable....roulette is not subject, in this sense, to uncertainty. . . . The sense in which I am using the term is that in which the prospect of a European war is uncertain,...
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A "second Edition" of The General Theory, Volume 1

Geoffrey Colin Harcourt, P. A. Riach - Keynesian economics - 1997 - 838 pages
...of Economics, emphasizes the 'uncertainty' of long-term expectations: By 'uncertain' knowledge ... I do not mean merely to distinguish what is known...roulette is not subject, in this sense, to uncertainty; . . . the expectation of life is only slightly uncertain. Even the weather is only moderately uncertain....
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Encyclopedia of Political Economy: A-K

Phillip Anthony O'Hara - Business & Economics - 1999 - 676 pages
...orthodox analysis for wrongly reducing uncertainty to probabilistic risk. By uncertainty, Keynes did not mean merely to distinguish what is known for certain from what is only probable. Rather, he meant to distinguish what is known for certain from matters about which there is no scientific...
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Probability Theory and Applications

Elton P. Hsu, S. R. S. Varadhan - Mathematics - 1999 - 402 pages
...known with certainty). John Maynard Keynes {Keynes, 1936) put it like this: By "uncertain" knowledge.. -I do not mean merely to distinguish what is known for certain /rom what is only probable. The game o/ roulette is not subject, in this sense, to uncertainty. The...
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Introduction to Mathematical Finance

David C. Heath Glen Swindle - Investments - 2000 - 184 pages
...known with certainty). Jolm Maynard Keynes (Keynes. 1936) put it like this: By "uncertain" knowledge... I do not mean merely to distinguish what is known...roulette is not subject. in this sense. to uncertainty. The sense in which I am using the term is that in which the prospect of a European war is uncertain,...
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Naked Among Cannibals: What Really Happens Inside Australian Banks

Graham Hand - Business & Economics - 2001 - 328 pages
...the real world, not formulas and models and mathematical probability: By 'uncertain' knowledge ... I do not mean merely to distinguish what is known...roulette is not subject, in this sense, to uncertainty . . . The sense in which I am using the term is that in which the prospect of a European war is uncertain,...
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