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Decision Theory and Decision Behaviour

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  • © 1998

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  1. Anatol Rapoport

    1. Toronto, Canada

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Table of contents (23 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Decisions Involving a Single Actor

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Introduction: An Overview of Decision Theory

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      Pages 3-9

    3. Orders and Scales

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      Pages 10-25

    4. Optimization

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      Pages 26-49

    5. Decisions under Uncertainty and Risk

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      Pages 50-81

    6. Subjective Aspects of Risk

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      Pages 82-104

    7. Modifications and Generalizations of Expected Utility Theory

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      Pages 105-135

    8. Multi-objective Decisions

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      Pages 136-159

    9. Theory of Social Choice

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      Pages 160-173

    10. Individual Psychology of Decision-making

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      Pages 174-186

  3. Non-cooperative Games

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 187-187
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    2. Two-person Constant Sum Games

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      Pages 189-207

    3. Some Topics in Continuous Games

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      Pages 208-225

    4. Two-person Non-constant Sum Games

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      Pages 226-253

    5. Social Dilemmas

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      Pages 254-272

    6. Applications of Game Theory in Biology

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      Pages 273-296

    7. Theory of Voting

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      Pages 297-312

  4. Collective Decisions

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      Pages 313-313
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    2. Two-person Cooperative Games

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      Pages 315-336
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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; (2) the descriptive, based on observations of how people actually choose in real life and in laboratory experiments. The mathematical tools used in the normative approach range from elementary algebra to matrix and differential equations. Sections on different levels can be studied independently. Special emphasis is made on 'offshoots' of both theories to cognitive psychology, theoretical biology, and philosophy.

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