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Notes On The Theory Of Choice

Book information

Publisher
Westview Press
Year
1988
ISBN
0813375533, 9780813375533
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
5 MB (4765064 bytes)
Series
Underground Classics in Economics
Pages
216\216
DPI
600
Time added
2014-01-29 10:58:08

Description

In this book, Professor Kreps presents a first course on the basic models of choice theory that underlie much of economic theory. This course, taught for several years at the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, gives the student an introduction to the axiomatic method of economic analysis, without placing too heavy a demand on mathematical sophistication.The course begins with the basics of choice and revealed preference theory and then discusses numerical representations of ordinal preference. Models with uncertainty come next: First is von Neumann-–Morgenstern utility, and then choice under uncertainty with subjective uncertainty, using the formulation of Anscombe and Aumann, and then sketching the development of Savage’s classic theory. Finally, the course delves into a number of special topics, including de Finetti’s theorem, modeling choice on a part of a larger problem, dynamic choice, and the empirical evidence against the classic models.

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