The history and methodology of expected utility

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The history and methodology of expected utility

Ivan Moscati

(Cambridge elements, . Elements in decision theory and philosophy / edited by Martin Peterson)

Cambridge University Press, c2023

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References: p.[74]-80

内容説明・目次

内容説明

This Element offers an accessible but technically detailed review of expected utility theory (EU), which is a model of individual decision-making under uncertainty that is central for both economics and philosophy. The Element's approach falls between the history of ideas and economic methodology. At the historical level, it reviews EU by following its conceptual evolution from its original formulation in the eighteenth century through its transformations and extensions in the mid-twentieth century to its more recent supersession by post-EU theories such as prospect theory. In reconstructing the history of EU, it focuses on the methodological issues that have accompanied its evolution, such as whether the utility function and the other components of EU correspond to actual mental entities. On many of these issues, no consensus has yet been reached, and in this Element the author offers his view on them.

目次

  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Bernoulli's EU
  • 3. Fortunes and misfortunes of Bernoulli's EU
  • 4. Von Neumann and Morgenstern's EU: presentation
  • 5. Von Neumann and Morgenstern's EU: discussion
  • 6. Savage's EU
  • 7. Beyond EU: prospect theory
  • 8. A very short conclusion
  • References.

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詳細情報

  • NII書誌ID(NCID)
    BD05041543
  • ISBN
    • 9781009198264
  • 出版国コード
    uk
  • タイトル言語コード
    eng
  • 本文言語コード
    eng
  • 出版地
    Cambridge
  • ページ数/冊数
    80 p.
  • 大きさ
    23 cm
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