Making Better Decisions

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Decision Theory in Practice

By Itzhak Gilboa

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Making Better Decisions introduces readers to key aspects of decision theory, exploring how these insights can improve our decision-making processes. The book covers a wide range of topics from microeconomic theory, game theory, social choice, statistics, psychology, and philosophy. It encourages readers to engage actively by imagining scenarios and making judgements, all presented in accessible language with minimal mathematical jargon. The text also critically assesses both the theories discussed and their critiques, complemented by a web resource for teachers and students.
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This book is ideal for students, educators, and anyone interested in understanding the principles behind decision-making without requiring extensive mathematical background.

Making Better Decisions offers explanations of both the theories we would like to adopt in order to make better decisions, and the theories that explain how those around us behave.

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Making Better Decisions introduces readers to some of the principal aspects of decision theory and examines how these might lead us to make better decisions.

This book introduces readers to key aspects of decision theory and examines how they might help us make better decisions. The presentation of material encourages readers to imagine a situation and make a decision or a judgement.

It offers broad coverage of the subject, including major insights from several sub-disciplines: microeconomic theory, decision theory, game theory, social choice, statistics, psychology, and philosophy.

These insights are explained informally in a language that has minimal mathematical notation or jargon, even when describing and interpreting mathematical theorems.

The text critically assesses the theory presented within, as well as some of its critiques. Additionally, it includes a web resource for teachers and students.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781444336528

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 01 October 2010

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Wiley-Blackwell

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 18.0mm

Width: 142.0mm

Height: 224.0mm

Weight: 431g

Pages: 232

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Education & Reference Finance & Economics Finance & Investment Itzhak Gilboa Non-Fiction

About the Author

Itzhak Gilboa is a chaired Professor in the Department of Economics and Decision Sciences at HEC, Paris and in the Eitan Berglas School of Economics at Tel Aviv University, and Fellow of the Cowles Foundation at Yale University. He previously held the position of chaired Professor at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. Gilboa's research focuses on decision under uncertainty. He has worked with David Schmeidler on axiomatic foundation of non-Bayesian decision theory and contributed to research in complexity in game theory, evolutionary game theory, and social choice. He is co-author of A Theory of Case-Based Decisions (with David Schmeidler, 2001), and author of Theory of Decision under Uncertainty (2009) and of Rational Choice (2010).