Economic Information, Decision, and Prediction Selected Essays: Volume I Part I Economics of Decision
The papers of Jacob Marschak which follow in these volumes are an extraordinary combination of original and fruitful departures in economic and social thought, superb clarity of exposition, and sensitivity to the values of earlier work and even competing traditions. They make us marvel alike at thei...
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
1974, 1974
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1974 |
| Series: | Theory and Decision Library
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Table of Contents:
- I: Economics of Decision
- Introductory Note
- 1. Rational Behavior, Uncertain Prospects, and Measurable Utility (1950)
- 2. Why ‘Should’ Statisticians and Businessmen Maximize ‘Moral Expectation’ ? (1951)
- 3. Scaling of Utilities and Probabilities (1954)
- 4. Probability in the Social Sciences (1954)
- 5. Norms and Habits of Decision Making Under Certainty (1955)
- 6. Experimental Tests of a Stochastic Decision Theory (1959)
- 7. Random Orderings and Stochastic Theories of Responses (1960)
- 8. Binary-Choice Constraints and Random Utility Indicators (1960)
- 9. Actual Versus Consistent Decision Behavior (1964)
- 10. Stochastic Models of Choice Behavior (1963)
- 11. On Adaptive Programming (1963)
- 12. An Experimental Study of Some Stochastic Models for Wagers (1963)
- 13. The Payoff-Relevant Description of States and Acts (1963)
- 14. Probabilities of Choices Among Very Similar Objects: An Experiment to Decide Between Two Models (1963)
- 15. Measuring Utility by a Single-Response Sequential Method (1964)
- 16. Decision Making: Economic Aspects (1968)
- 17. The Economic Man’s Logic (1970)
- 18. Economics of Acting, Thinking, and Surviving (1974)
- Index of Names
- Index of Subjects