- Bib ID:
- 1093207
- Format:
- Book
- Description:
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- Cheltenham, UK ; Brookfield, US : E. Elgar, c1996
- viii, 239 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
- 1858983185
- Full contents:
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- Introduction: What is certainty in economic uncertainties? / Christian Schmidt
- 1. Varieties of uncertainty / Mark Perlman and Charles R. McCann, Jr.
- 2. Some misunderstanding on uncertainty in modern classical economics / Paul Davidson
- 3. Ignorance and the absence of probabilities / Omar Hamouda and Robin Rowley
- 4. Risk and uncertainty: a Knightian distinction revisited / Christian Schmidt
- 5. Uncertainty and subjectivism: the role of uncertainty in the Austrian School / Pierre Garello
- 6. Money and uncertainty in the economic thought of Carl Menger / Thierry Aimar
- 7. Radical uncertainty and its economic scope according to Knight and according to Keynes / Maurice Netter
- 8. Uncertainty in the writings of Kondratiev / Alain Carry
- 9. From errors theory to linear regression / Claude Meidinger
- 10. From games and pure chance to strategic games: French probabilists and early game theory / Robert W. Dimand and Mary Ann Dimand.
- 11. The best and the worst in G.L.S. Shackle's decision theory / Jean-Marc Ponsonnet
- 12. 'Hazard', determinism and economic fluctuations in Maurice Allais's thought / Georges Prat.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Subject:
- Uncertainty
- Other authors/contributors:
- Schmidt, Christian, 1938-
- Copyright:
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