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  • Opinion Pooling

    by Lee Elkin, Richard Pettigrew ...
    Series series Elements in Decision Theory and Philosophy
    Disagreement is a common feature of a social world. For various reasons, however, we sometimes need to resolve a disagreement into a single set of opinions. This can be achieved by pooling the opinions of individuals that make up the group. In this Element, we provide an opinionated survey on some ways of pooling opinions: linear pooling, multiplicative pooling (including geometric), and pooling ... Read more

    $20.49 USD

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    Statistical Illogic and the Crisis of Modern Science

    by Aubrey Clayton ...
    There is a logical flaw in the statistical methods used across experimental science. This fault is not a minor academic quibble: it underlies a reproducibility crisis now threatening entire disciplines. In an increasingly statistics-reliant society, this same deeply rooted error shapes decisions in medicine, law, and public policy with profound consequences. The foundation of the problem is a ... Read more

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  • An Introduction to Decision Theory

    by Martin Peterson ...
    Series series Cambridge Introductions to Philosophy
    Now revised and updated, this introduction to decision theory is both accessible and comprehensive, covering topics including decision making under ignorance and risk, the foundations of utility theory, the debate over subjective and objective probability, Bayesianism, causal decision theory, game theory, and social choice theory. No mathematical skills are assumed, with all concepts and results ... Read more

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  • The Blank Swan

    The End of Probability

    by Elie Ayache ...
    October 19th 1987 was a day of huge change for the global finance industry. On this day the stock market crashed, the Nobel Prize winning Black-Scholes formula failed and volatility smiles were born, and on this day Elie Ayache began his career, on the trading floor of the French Futures and Options Exchange.Experts everywhere sought to find a model for this event, and ways to simulate it in order ... Read more

    $46.00 USD

  • Economics and Consumer Behavior

    by Angus Deaton, John Muellbauer ...
    This classic text has introduced generations of students to the economic theory of consumer behaviour. Written by 2015 Nobel Laureate Angus Deaton and John Muellbauer, the book begins with a self-contained presentation of the basic theory and its use in applied econometrics. These early chapters also include elementary extensions of the theory to labour supply, durable goods, the consumption ... Read more

    $50.89 USD

  • Rational Choice

    by Itzhak Gilboa ...
    A nontechnical, concise, and rigorous introduction to the rational choice paradigm, focusing on basic insights applicable in fields ranging from economics to philosophy.This book offers a rigorous, concise, and nontechnical introduction to some of the fundamental insights of rational choice theory. It draws on formal theories of microeconomics, decision making, games, and social choice, and on ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Thinking and Deciding

    by Jonathan Baron ...
    The fifth edition of the classic text Thinking and Deciding updates the broad overview of the field of judgments and decisions offered in previous editions. It covers the normative standards used to evaluate conclusions, such as logic, probability, and various forms of utility theory. It explains descriptive accounts of departures from these standards, largely in terms of principles of cognitive ... Read more

    $47.59 USD

  • Coherent Stress Testing

    A Bayesian Approach to the Analysis of Financial Stress

    by Riccardo Rebonato ...
    Series series The Wiley Finance Series
    In Coherent Stress Testing: A Bayesian Approach, industry expert Riccardo Rebonato presents a groundbreaking new approach to this important but often undervalued part of the risk management toolkit.Based on the author's extensive work, research and presentations in the area, the book fills a gap in quantitative risk management by introducing a new and very intuitively appealing approach to stress ... Read more

    $63.00 USD

  • Social Choice and Individual Values

    by Kenneth Joseph Arrow ...
    Kenneth Arrow's monograph "Social Choice and Individual Values" and a theorem within it created modern social choice theory, a rigorous melding of social ethics and voting theory with an economic flavor. The work culminated in what Arrow called the "General Possibility Theorem," better known thereafter as Arrow's (impossibility) theorem. The theorem states that, absent restrictions on either ... Read more

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  • Lecture Notes in Microeconomic Theory

    The Economic Agent - Second Edition

    by Ariel Rubinstein ...
    Ariel Rubinstein's well-known lecture notes on microeconomics—now fully revised and expandedThis book presents Ariel Rubinstein's lecture notes for the first part of his well-known graduate course in microeconomics. Developed during the fifteen years that Rubinstein taught the course at Tel Aviv University, Princeton University, and New York University, these notes provide a critical assessment of ... Read more

    $39.59 USD

  • The New Dynamic Public Finance

    by Narayana R. Kocherlakota ...
    Series series The Toulouse Lectures in Economics
    Optimal tax design attempts to resolve a well-known trade-off: namely, that high taxes are bad insofar as they discourage people from working, but good to the degree that, by redistributing wealth, they help insure people against productivity shocks. Until recently, however, economic research on this question either ignored people's uncertainty about their future productivities or imposed strong ... Read more

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  • Anti-Crisis

    by Janet Roitman ...
    Crisis is everywhere: in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, and the Congo; in housing markets, money markets, financial systems, state budgets, and sovereign currencies. In Anti-Crisis, Janet Roitman steps back from the cycle of crisis production to ask not just why we declare so many crises but also what sort of analytical work the concept of crisis enables. What, she asks, are the stakes of crisis? ... Read more

    $17.99 USD