Decision Theory and Decision Behaviour Normative and Descriptive Approaches

This book presents the content of a year's course in decision processes for third and fourth year students given at the University of Toronto. A principal theme of the book is the relationship between normative and descriptive decision theory. The distinction between the two approaches is not c...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rapoport, Anatol
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 1989, 1989
Edition:1st ed. 1989
Series:Theory and Decision Library B, Mathematical and Statistical Methods
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • I: Decisions Involving a Single Actor
  • 1 Orders and Scales
  • 2 Optimization
  • 3 Decisions under Uncertainty
  • 4 Decisions under Risk
  • 5 Subjective Aspects of Risk
  • 6 Multi-objective Decisions
  • 7 Theory of Social Choice
  • 8 Individual Psychology of Decision-making
  • II: Non-Cooperative Games
  • 9 Two-person Constant Sum Games
  • 10 Some Topics in Continuous Games
  • 11 Two-person Non-constant Sum Games
  • 12 Psychological Pressures in Non-cooperative Games
  • 13 Theory of Voting
  • 14 Social Traps
  • III: Collective Decisions
  • 15 Two-person Cooperative Games
  • 16 N-person Cooperative Games
  • 17 The Allocation Problem
  • 18 Indices of Power
  • 19 Theories of Coalition Formation
  • 20 Psychology of Collective Decision-making
  • Concluding Remarks
  • Appendix A Glossary of Symbols and Terms
  • References