Decision Theory and Decision Behaviour

ISBN-13: 9781349399888 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 469 str.

Anatol Rapoport; A. Rapoport

Opis

The book treats two approaches to decision theory: (1) the normative, purporting to determine how a 'perfectly rational' actor ought to choose among available alternatives; The mathematical tools used in the normative approach range from elementary algebra to matrix and differential equations.

Spis treści

Preface - Preface to the Second Revised Edition - Introduction: An Overview of Decision Theory - Orders and Scales - Optimization - Decisions Under Uncertainty and Risk - Subjective Aspects of Risk - Generalizations of Expected Utility Theory - Multi-Objective Decisions - Theory of Social Choice - Individual Psychology of Decision-Making -Two-Person Constant Sum Games - Some Topics in Continuous Games - Two-Person Non-Constant Sum Games - Social Dilemmas - Applications of Game Theory in Biology - Theory of Voting - Two-Person Cooperative Games - N-Person Cooperative Games - The Allocation Problem - Indices of Power - Theories of Coalition Formation - Game-Theoretic Concepts in Economics - Psychology of Collective Decision - Concluding Remarks - Notes - Appendix - References

O autorze

ANATOL RAPOPORT