Decision theory: General

In Gut Feelings: Short Cuts to Better Decision Making psychologist and behavioural expert Gerd Gigerenzer reveals the secrets of fast and effective...

In an economy where knowledge is power, no one can expect to succeed without the ability to solve problems-to gather information, weigh options, ma...

Calculating Political Risk is rich and illuminating, and much more than a political science treatise. Althaus draws on diverse literature, extensiv...

There is an increasing dissatisfaction about how risk is regulated, leading to vivid debates about the use of 'risk assessment' and 'precaution'. A...

In Even the Odds, Karen Firestone explains how risk assessment plays a prominent role in all aspects of life. We may all define risk, and our toler...

During the last few decades, many university presidents and provosts have expressed an intent to internationalize their institutions to equip stude...

The notion of class attendance has largely been ignored, where students, faculty, and administrators substitute assumptions for empirical evidence....

Methods for determining exposure of pesticides to agricultural workers have been developing for over thirty years. You may ask: what more do we nee...

A modern practical guide to building and using actuarial models.Loss Models: From Data to Decisions is organized around the principle that actuarie...

Financial markets respond to information virtually instantaneously. Each new piece of information influences the prices of assets and their correla...

Can quite different values be rationally weighed against one another? Can the value of one thing always be ranked as greater than, equal to, or les...

The first international handbook to bring the areas of reasoning,judgment and decision making together, now in paperback format. The book brings t...