On the Interplay of Riskless and Risky Utility
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In developing this papeq I re-read some of Mud Edwards major contributions to the study of behavioral decision making (Edwards, 1954, 1962, 1992; von Wmterfeldt and Edwards, 1986) to remind myself about how he has viewed the developments of a half century of work on individual decision making that began with von Neuman and Morgenstern's (1947) theory of expected utility. I focused on three aspects:
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