The History and Methodology of Expected Utility - Couverture souple

Moscati, Ivan

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1009198262 ISBN 13 : 9781009198264

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2023

Synopsis

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1009198262
• ISBN 13: 9781009198264
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 90
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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