Utility and entropy

Economic Theory

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 233-238

  Candeal, Juan C ^a   De Miguel, Juan R ^c   Induráin, Esteban ^c   Mehta, Ghanshyam B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Entropy; Utility

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035529085     PISSN: 09382259     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/PL00004100     Document Type: Article

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