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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Format: | eBook |
Language: | English |
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
1989, 1989
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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