How (not) to do decision theory

Annual Review of Economics

Volumn 2, Issue , 2010, Pages 257-282

  Dekel, Eddie ^a,b   Lipman, Barton L ^c  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c USA   (United States)

Author keywords

Axioms; Choice theory; Representations

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650074965     PISSN: 19411383     EISSN: 19411391     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.economics.102308.124328     Document Type: Article

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