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UTILITY THEORY FOR DECISION MAKING

Published 1 June 1970
Peter C. Fishburn
Citations1,512

TL;DR

This book presents a concise yet mathematically complete treatment of modern utility theories that covers nonprobabilistic preference theory, the von Neumann-Morgenstern expected-utility theory and its extensions, and the joint axiomatization of utility and subjective probability.

Abstract

The book presents a concise yet mathematically complete treatment of modern utility theories that covers nonprobabilistic preference theory, the von Neumann-Morgenstern expected-utility theory and its extensions, and the joint axiomatization of utility and subjective probability.

Keywords

Decision Sciences