RISKY CURVES by Daniel Friedman, R. Mark Isaac, Shyam Sunder ( 9781317821229 )

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Title:

RISKY CURVES
ON THE EMPIRICAL FAILURE OF EXPECTED UTILITY

By:

Daniel Friedman, R. Mark Isaac, Shyam Sunder

Format:

Electronic book text

List price:	£34.99
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ISBN 10:

131782122X

ISBN 13:

9781317821229

Publisher:

TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD

Pub. date:

1 February, 2014

Pages:

140

Synopsis:

For several decades, the orthodox economics approach to understanding choice under risk has been to assume that each individual person maximizes some sort of personal utility function defined over purchasing power. This new volume contests that even the best wisdom from the orthodox theory has not yet been able to do better than supposedly naive models that use rules of thumb, or that focus on the consumption possibilities and economic constraints facing the individual. The authors assert this by first revisiting the origins of orthodox theory. They then recount decades of failed attempts to obtain meaningful empirical validation or calibration of the theory. Estimated shapes and parameters of the "curves" have varied erratically from domain to domain (e.g., individual choice versus aggregate behavior), from context to context, from one elicitation mechanism to another, and even from the same individual at different time periods, sometimes just minutes apart.This book proposes the return to a simpler sort of scientific theory of risky choice, one that focuses not upon unobservable curves but rather upon the potentially observable opportunities and constraints facing decision makers. It argues that such an opportunities-based model offers superior possibilities for scientific advancement. At the very least, linear utility - in the presence of constraints - is a useful bar for the "curved" alternatives to clear.

Illustrations:

17 Line drawings, black and white; 9 Tables, black and white; 17

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Imprint:

Routledge

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Non-returnable

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