“…The course was entitled 'Foundations of Mathematics', and had one striking feature: it was taught from the ZFC axioms, with almost no mention of naïve set theory and the set-theoretic paradoxes. …”

Sumario

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Appendix A: The random lottery incentive mechanism -- Appendix B: In lieu of a problem set -- References -- PART 1: Behavioral Economics of Risk, Uncertainty, and Ambiguity -- Introduction to part 1 -- CHAPTER 1: The Evidence on Human Choice under Risk and Uncertainty -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 The elements of classical decision theory -- 1.2.1 Preference foundations of expected utility theory (EU) -- 1.2.2 Attitudes to risk under EU 1.3 Subjective expected utility theory (SE -- 1.4 Eliciting the utility function under EU -- 1.4.1 The case of known probabilities -- 1.4.2 The case of unknown probabilities -- 1.5 Violations of expected utility theory -- 1.5.1 Violations of the independence axiom -- 1.5.2 The probability triangle and violations of the axioms of rationality -- 1.5.3 Some attempts to relax the independence axiom -- 1.5.4 Attitudes to risk for small and large stakes: Rabin's paradox -- 1.5.5 Violations of description invariance -- 1.5.6 Preference reversals -- 1.5.7 Is the reduction axiom supported by the evidence? …”