The Shackle Papers (1949-1969) comprise 53 boxes and 28 volumes of correspondence, drafts of articles, offprints and annotated books, arranged by Shackle and given to the University of Liverpool in 1969.
George Lennox Sharman Shackle (1903-1992), one of the leading economic philosophers of the 20th century, came late to higher education because of his family's financial circumstances
He successfully completed degrees as an external student at London University, and later at the London School of Economics and New College, Oxford. His PhD thesis from LSE, Expectations, Investments and Income was published in 1938.
Shackle worked at the Institute of Statistics at Oxford, and then as a government statistician in the Cabinet Office. In 1951, Shackle was appointed to the Brunner Chair of Economic Science at the University of Liverpool, where he remained until his retirement in 1969.
