Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
The main text has considered decision under uncertainty and decision under risk. The results in this book can be reinterpreted for other contexts such as welfare evaluations, intertemporal choice, multiattribute utility, and numerous other applications. In some contexts a quantitative function V on the prospects, rather than a preference relation ≽, is taken as a primitive. These can often be related to each other, where ≽ is the preference relation represented by V and V is for instance the certainty equivalent function generated by the preference relation. Many conditions for preferences can readily be restated in terms of the certainty equivalent function. For simplicity, we assume that S is finite in this appendix. Extensions to general sets S are straightforward.
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