Fundamental Uncertainty: Rationality and Plausible Reasoning

About Silva Marzetti Dall'aste Brandolini

SILVA MARZETTI DALL'ASTE BRANDOLINI is Professor of Economics University of Bologna Italy. She has published amongst other research papers 'Il comportamento razionale del policy maker' Economia Politica1998; 'Economic and Social Demand for Coastal Protection'Coastal Engineering 2005 (co-authored); 'Happiness and Sustainability: A Modern Paradox' in L. Bruni and P. L. Porta (eds) Handbook on the Economics of Happiness Cheltenham U.K. and Northampton Mass. 2007; 'Recreational Demand Functions for Different Categories of Beach Visitors' Tourism Economics 2009. She has also edited (in collaboration with A. Pasquinelli) John Maynard Keynes Trattato sulla probabilità (Italian translation of J. M. Keynes's A Treatise on Probability) and (in collaboration with R. Scazzieri) La probabilità in Keynes Bologna 1999.ROBERTO SCAZZIERI is Professor of Economic Analysis University of Bologna; Senior Member Gonville and Caius College and Clare Hall Cambridge. He won the St Vincent Prize for Economics 1984 and the Linceo Prize for Economics 2004. He has authored A Theory of Production. Tasks Processes and Technical Practices Oxford 1993; co-edited Foundations of Economics. Structures of Inquiry and Economic Theory Oxford 1986; Production and Economic Dynamics Cambridge 1996; Knowledge Social Institutions and the Division of Labour Cheltenham UK and Northampton US 2001; Reasoning Rationality and Probability Stanford 2008; The Migration ofIdeas Sagamore Beach 2008; Markets Money and Capital. Hicksian Economics for the 21st Century Cambridge 2008; and Capital Time and Transitional Dynamics London and New York 2009.