Title | Expected Utility Hypotheses and the Allais Paradox [electronic resource] : Contemporary Discussions of the Decisions under Uncertainty with Allais' Rejoinder / edited by Maurice Allais, Ole Hagen |
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Imprint | Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 1979 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-7629-1 |
Descript | VII, 715 p. online resource |
Introductory Survey -- The Foundations of a Positive Theory of Choice involving Risk and a Criticism of the Postulates and Axioms of the American School -- CriticaI Examination of the New Foundation of Utility -- A Short Confirmation of My Standpoint -- Utilities, Psychological Values, and Decision Makers -- Some Reflections on Utility -- A Reply to Allais -- Utility and Stochastic Dominance -- Maximizing Expected Utility and the Rule of Long Run Success -- Adaptive Utility -- On the Nature of Expected Utility -- The St. Petersburg Puzzle -- Towards a Positive Theory of Preferences Under Risk -- The Naturalistic Versus the Intuitionistic School of Values -- Utility Theory: Axioms versus โParadoxes' -- Comparison of Decision Models and some Suggestions -- The So-called Allais Paradox and Rational Decisions Under Uncertainty -- Subject Indexes -- - Parts I (Foreword), II and V -- - Allais' notation -- - Parts I (Introductory Survey), III and IV -- Name Index