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Making Better Decisions
Decision Theory in Practice
ISBN/EAN: 9781444336528
Umbreit-Nr.: 2134484
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: 220 S.
Format in cm: 2 x 23 x 15.4
Einband:
Paperback
Erschienen am 01.10.2010
Auflage: 1/2011
- Zusatztext
- 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
- Kurztext
- Making Better Decisions offers explanations of both the theories we would like to adopt in order to make better decisions, and the theories that explain how those around us behave.
- Autorenportrait
- 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).