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Gilboa, Itzhak

 
9781444336528: Making Better Decisions: Decision Theory in Practice
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ISBN 10 : 1444336525 ISBN 13 : 9781444336528
Editeur : Wiley-Blackwell, 2010

Synopsis

Making Better Decisions introduces readers to some of the principal aspects of decision theory, and examines how these might lead us to make better decisions.

  • Introduces readers to key aspects of decision theory and examines how they might help us make better decisions
  • Presentation of material encourages readers to imagine a situation and make a decision or a judgment
  • Offers a broad coverage of the subject including major insights from several sub-disciplines: microeconomic theory, decision theory, game theory, social choice, statistics, psychology, and philosophy
  • Explains these insights informally in a language that has minimal mathematical notation or jargon, even when describing and interpreting mathematical theorems
  • Critically assesses the theory presented within the text, as well as some of its critiques
  • Includes a web resource for teachers and students

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À propos de l'auteur

Itzhak Gilboa is a chaired Professor in the Department of Economics and Decision Sciences at HEC, Paris and in the Eitan Berglas School of Economics at Tel Aviv University, and Fellow of the Cowles Foundation at Yale University. He previously held the position of chaired Professor at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. Gilboa's research focuses on decision under uncertainty. He has worked with David Schmeidler on axiomatic foundation of non-Bayesian decision theory and contributed to research in complexity in game theory, evolutionary game theory, and social choice. He is co-author of A Theory of Case-Based Decisions (with David Schmeidler, 2001), and author of Theory of Decision under Uncertainty (2009) and of Rational Choice (2010).

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Éditeur
Wiley-Blackwell
Date d'édition
2010
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1444336525
ISBN 13 
9781444336528
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
231
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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ISBN 10 :  1444336517 ISBN 13 :  9781444336511
Editeur : Wiley-Blackwell, 2010
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