Szpiro Risk, Choice, and Uncertainty

Three Centuries of Economic Decision-Making
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-0-231-55097-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
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E-Book, Englisch

Risk, Choice, and Uncertainty offers a new narrative of the three-century history of the study of decision making, tracing how crucial ideas have evolved and telling the stories of the thinkers who shaped the field. George G. Szpiro examines economics from theories of optimal decision making to behavioral science.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Szpiro, George G.

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management Entscheidungsfindung
• Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Mathematik Allgemein Geschichte der Mathematik
• Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Mathematik Allgemein Philosophie der Mathematik
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftsgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
Part I. Happiness and the Utility of Wealth
1. It All Began with A Paradox
2. More Is Better.
3. at a Decreasing Rate
Part II. Mathematics Is the Queen of the Sciences.
4. The Marginalist Triumvirate
5. Forgotten Precursors
6. Betting on One’s Belief
7. Games Economists Play
8. Wobbly Curves
9. Comparing the Incomparable
Part III. But Man Is the Measure of All Things
10. More Paradoxes
11. Good Enough
12. Sunk Costs, the Gambler’s Fallacy, and Other Errors
13. Erroneous, Irrational, or Plain Dumb?
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Szpiro George G.:
George Szpiro (Ph.D., mathematical economics and finance, Hebrew University) has for the past thirty years worked as correspondent of the Swiss daily Neue Zürcher Zeitung, which has a readership of 500k. He is the author of Kepler’s Conjecture (John Wiley, 2003), Numbers Rule (Princeton University Press, 2010) and Pricing the Future (Basic Books 2011), among others.George G. Szpiro is an award-winning author and journalist. A longtime correspondent for the Swiss daily Neue Zürcher Zeitung, his many books include Numbers Rule: The Vexing Mathematics of Democracy, from Plato to the Present (2010) and Pricing the Future: Finance, Physics, and the 300-Year Journey to the Black-Scholes Equation (2011).