Utility and Probability
Published on 23. February 1990
Book
Paperback/Softback
320 pages
978-0-333-49541-4 (ISBN)
Description
This is an excerpt from the 4-volume dictionary of economics, a reference book which aims to define the subject of economics today. 1300 subject entries in the complete work cover the broad themes of economic theory. This extract concentrates on utility and probability.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Basingstoke
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
bibliography
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Weight
500 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-333-49541-4 (9780333495414)
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Content
Acyclicity, Douglas Blair; Allais paradox, Maurice Allais; Thomas Bayes, D.V.Lindley; Daniel Bernoulli, S.L.Zabell; bounded rationality, Herbert A.Simon; certainty equivalent, Xavier Freixas; contingent commodities, Zvi Safra; economic theory and the hypothesis of rationality, Kenneth J.Arrow; Francis Ysidro Edgeworth, Peter Newman; expected utility and mathematical expectation, David Schmeidler & Peter Wakker; expected utility hypothesis, Mark J.Machina; Bruno de Finetti, Giancarlo Gandolfo; Hermann Heinrich Gossen, Jurg Niehans; impatience, Larry G.Epstein; induction, Paul W.Humphreys; interdependent preferences, Peter C.Fishburn; interpersonal utility comparisons, John C.Harsanyi; lexicographic orderings, C.Blackorby; Myopic decision rules, Mordecai Kurz; orderings, C.Blackorby; perfect foresight, Margaret Bray; preferences, George Henrik von Wright; preference reversals, Edi Karni; preordering, C.Blackorby; probability, Ian Hacking; psychology and economics, Charles R.Plott; Frank Plumpton Ramsey, Peter Newman; rational behaviour, Amartya Sen; representation of preferences, Peter C.Fishburn; risk, Mark J.Machina and Michael Rothschild; Leonard J.Savage, I.Richard Savage; state-dependent preferences, Edi Karni; state preference approach, H.M.Polemarchakis; stochastic dominance, Haim Levy; subjective probability, I.J.Good; time preference, Wayne Shafer; uncertainty, Peter J.Hammond; utility, R.D.Collison Black; utility theory and decision theory, Peter C.Fishburn.