Questions in decision theory

Annual Review of Economics

Volumn 2, Issue , 2010, Pages 1-19

  Gilboa, Itzhak ^a,b  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b HEC PARIS   (France)

Author keywords

Group decision; Probability; Rationality; Reasoning; Utility

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952610528     PISSN: 19411383     EISSN: 19411391     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.economics.102308.124332     Document Type: Article

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