Welcome to Decision Theory Foundations!
Instructor: Marcus Pivato (Centre d'Économie de la Sorbonne).
Email: marcuspivato@gmail.com or Marcus.Pivato@univ-paris1.fr .
Classes: Thursday 17h00-19h00 (nine weeks) in MSE 116.
Textbook: (required) Decision Making, by Giacomo Bonano (2017)
Summary: Decisions under uncertainty (expected utility, decision trees). Information, beliefs, preference aggregation.
Marking scheme: 100% Final Exam
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Gilboa, Itzhak, Theory of Decision under Uncertainty. (Cambridge University Press, 2009)
Gilboa, Itzhak, Rational Choice. (MIT Press, 2010)
Peterson, Martin, An Introduction to Decision Theory, 2nd edition (Cambridge University Press, 2017)
Resnik, Michael, Choices -- An Introduction To Decision Theory (University of Minnesota Press, 1987)
Markus Knauff and Wolfgang Spohn, The Handbook of Rationality (2021, MIT Press) [FREE ONLINE]
Article on Decision Theory in the Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy.
Article on Social Choice Theory in the Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy.