Research Catalog

Title

Markets, risk and money : essays in honor of Maurice Allais / edited by Bertrand R. Munier ; partially translated from French by Gillian Lewis.

Publication

Dordrecht ; Boston : Kluwer Academic, [1995], ©1995.

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Additional Authors

• Allais, Maurice.
• Munier, Bertrand.

Description

xii, 371 pages : portrait; 25 cm.

Series Statement

Theory and decision library. Series B, Mathematical and statistical methods ; v. 26

Uniform Title

Theory and decision library. Series B, Mathematical and statistical methods ; v. 26.

Subject

• Allais, Maurice
• Risk
• Decision making
• Capital

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 329-371).

Contents

• Introduction / Bertrand R. Munier -- Ch. 1. Fifty Years of Maurice Allais' Economic Writings: Seeds for Renewal in Contemporary Economic Thought / Bertrand R. Munier -- Ch. 2. Maurice Allais, a Belatedly Recognized Genius / Thierry de Montbrial -- Ch. 3. Self-Organizing Markets / Jacques Lesourne -- Ch. 4. A Theory of Spatial General Equilibrium in a Fuzzy Economy / Claude Ponsard -- Ch. 5. Maurice Allais, Unrecognized Pioneer of Overlapping Generations Models / Edmond Malinvaud -- Ch. 6. Some Possible Uses of Household Assets Accounts in National Accounting: The Case of American Households / Andre Babeau -- Ch. 7. Should We Get Rid of Economic Calculus? / Marcel Boiteux -- Ch. 8. Economics as Psychology: A Cognitive Assay of the French and American Schools of Risk Theory / Lola L. Lopes --
• Ch. 9. On Maurice Allais' and Ole Hagen's Expected Utility Hypotheses and the Allais Paradox: Contemporary Discussions of Decisions under Uncertainty with Allais' Rejoinder. 'Rational' Decision Making versus 'Rational' Decision Modelling? / Mark J. Machina -- Ch. 10. Probability of Ruin: A Useful Alternative to the Expected Utility Hypothesis in Firm Decision Making / James B. Ramsey -- Ch. 11. Complexity and Strategic Decision under Uncertainty. How Can We Adapt the Theory? / Bertrand R. Munier -- Ch. 12. The Generalized Irreversibility Effect / Xavier Freixas -- Ch. 13. Comparison of Two Decision-Aid Models Applied to a Nuclear Power Plant Siting Example / B. Roy and D. Bouyssou -- Ch. 14. Risk in Serial Conflicts, Evolution, Intelligence and Chaos / Werner Leinfellner -- Ch. 15. Money, Credit and Monetary Dynamics in Maurice Allais' Work / Jean-Jacques Durand.

ISBN

0792325788 (acid-free paper)

LCCN

93036635

OCLC

• 28927159
• ocm28927159

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries