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020			_a9781009198264 _qpbk.
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041			_aeng
100			_aMoscati, Ivan, _91644288 _eauthor
245			_aThe history and methodology of expected utility / _cIvan Moscati.
260			_aNew Delhi _bCambridge University Press, _c2023.
490	1		_aElements in decision theory and philosophy
520			_a"This Element offers an accessible but technically detailed review of expected utility theory (EU), which is a model of individual decision-making under uncertainty that is central for both economics and philosophy. The Element's approach falls between the history of ideas and economic methodology. At the historical level, it reviews EU by following its conceptual evolution from its original formulation in the eighteenth century through its transformations and extensions in the mid-twentieth century to its more recent supersession by post-EU theories such as prospect theory. In reconstructing the history of EU, it focuses on the methodological issues that have accompanied its evolution, such as whether the utility function and the other components of EU correspond to actual mental entities. On many of these issues, no consensus has yet been reached, and in this Element the author offers his view on them."--
650			_aUtility theory _963247
650			_aDecision making
830			_aElements in decision theory and philosophy _91644906
999			_c3056558 _d3056558