What Is Risk Aversion?
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- 1 March 2019
- journal article
- research article
- Published by University of Chicago Press in The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science
- Vol. 70 (1), 77-102
- https://doi.org/10.1093/bjps/axx035
Abstract
According to the orthodox treatment of risk preferences in decision theory, they are to be explained in terms of the agent’s desires about concrete outcomes. The orthodoxy has been criticiz...Funding Information
- AXA Research Fund (14-AXA-PDOC-222)
- Arts and Humanities Research Council (AH/J006033/1)
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