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Risk, ambiguity, and decision [Elektronisk resurs] / Daniel Ellsberg.
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Ellsberg, Daniel. (creator_code:aut_t)
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- record:Note_publ_t: New York, N.Y. Garland Pub. 2001
- language:Eng_t liii, 281 p.
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record:Series_t: Studies in philosophy
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- ch. 1. Ambiguity and risk. Vagueness, confidence, and the weight of arguments. The nature and uses of normative theory. The validation of normative propositions. The utility axioms as norms. Normative theory and empirical research -- ch. 2. The Bernoulli proposition. A possible counterexample : are there uncertainties that are not risks? Vulgar evaluations of risk -- ch. 3. The measurement of definite opinions. Von Neumann-Morgenstern utilities. Probability as price. "Coherence" and "definiteness" of probability-prices. Appendix to chapter three -- ch. 4. Opinions and actions : which come first? The logic of degrees of belief. Opinions that make horse races. Postulate 2 : the "sure-thing principle". Intuitive probabilities and "vagueness". Appendix to chapter four-- ch. 5. Uncertainties that are not risks. The "three-color urn" example. Vulgar evaluations of ambiguity. Appendix to chapter five -- ch. 6. Why are some uncertainties not risks? Decision criteria for "complete ignorance". Decision criteria for "partial ignorance" -- ch. 7. The "restricted Hurwicz criterion". The "restricted Bayes/Hurwicz criterion". Boldness and prudence : the "n-Color urn" example. Ignorance, probability, and varieties of gamblers -- ch. 8. Ambiguity and the utility axioms. The Pratt/Raiffa criticisms and the value of randomization. Rubin's axiom. Allais and the sure-thing principle. Winning at Russian roulette.
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