Conservation de la Forêt Dense en Afrique Centrale Et de L'Ouest

Conservation de la Forêt Dense en Afrique Centrale Et de L'Ouest
Author: Kevin M. Cleaver
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Total Pages: 372
Release: 1992
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 9780821322567

This volume brings together selected papers presented and discussed at the Conference on Conservation of West and Central African Rainforests, held in Abidjan, November 5-9, 1990.

Expected Utility Hypotheses and the Allais Paradox

Expected Utility Hypotheses and the Allais Paradox
Author: M. Allais
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 706
Release: 2013-03-14
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9401576297

Utility theory or, value theory in general, is certainly the cornerstone of decision theory, game theory, microecon~mics, and all social and political theories which deal with public decisions. Recently the American School of utility, founded by von N eumann Morgenstern, encountered a far-going criticism by the French School of utility represented by its founder Allais. The whole basis of the theory of decisions involving risk has been shaken and put into question. Consequently, basic research in the fundamentals of utility and value theory evolved into a crisis. Like any crisis in basic research, and this one was not an exception, it was very fruitful. One may simply say: Allais versus von Neumann-Morgenstern, or the French School of utility versus the American School, became one of the battlefields of scientific development which proved to be a most creative source of new advances and new developments in all those sciences which are based on evaluation of utilities.