The Mathematics of Preference, Choice and Order
Essays in Honor of Peter C. Fishburn
Editors: Brams, Steven, Gehrlein, William V., Roberts, Fred S. (Eds.)
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This volume serves the multiple purposes of honoring Peter Fishburn's contributions, providing both expository and new papers from leading figures in each of the areas of Fishburn's research, and putting into one volume a wide variety of topics that are often not included together. These topics consider mathematical aspects of: social choice theory, decision theory, operations research, economics, political science, and psychology; as well as mathematical topics such as partial orders, graph theory, probability, and optimization. An important objective of this book is to demonstrate linkages that exist among these areas of research.
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Entropy-Related Measures of the Utility of Gambling
Pages 5-25
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Altruistic Utility Functions for Joint Decisions
Pages 27-38
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SSB Preferences: Nonseparable Utilities or Nonseparable Beliefs
Pages 39-55
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Decision Making Based on Risk-Value Tradeoffs
Pages 59-72
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Normally Distributed Admissible Choices are Optimal
Pages 73-83
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- The Mathematics of Preference, Choice and Order
- Book Subtitle
- Essays in Honor of Peter C. Fishburn
- Editors
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- Steven Brams
- William V. Gehrlein
- Fred S. Roberts
- Series Title
- Studies in Choice and Welfare
- Copyright
- 2009
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
- Copyright Holder
- Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-540-79128-7
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-540-79128-7
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-540-79127-0
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-642-09800-0
- Series ISSN
- 1614-0311
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XVIII, 420
- Topics