Questions in Decision Theory
- 4 September 2010
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Annual Reviews in Annual Review of Economics
- Vol. 2 (1), 1-19
- https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.economics.102308.124332
Abstract
This review surveys a few major questions in the field of decision theory. It is argued that a re-examination of some of the fundamental concepts in decision theory may have important implications to theoretical and even empirical research in economics and related fields.Keywords
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