What Is Risk Aversion?

According to the orthodox treatment of risk preferences in decision theory, they are to be explained in terms of the agent's desires about concrete outcomes. The orthodoxy has been criticized both for conflating two types of attitudes and for committing agents to attitudes that do not seem rationall...

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Published in:British Journal for the Philosophy of Science Vol. 70; no. 1; pp. 77 - 103
Main Authors: Stefánsson, H Orri, Bradley, Richard
Format: Article
Published: University of Chicago Press Mar2019
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