Risk and Uncertainty : Proceedings of a Conference held by the International Economic Association

UNESCO and by the Ford Foundation. To both those bodies the Association Front Matter....Pages i-xv Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Descriptive and Normative Implications of the Decision-Theory Postulates....Pages 3-32 An Empirical Analysis of Risk-Taking by Firms in the Savings and Loan Industry....Pages 33-67 Measuring the Perception of Risk....Pages 68-93 Investment Behaviour with Utility a Concave Function of Wealth....Pages 94-119 Front Matter....Pages 121-121 Uncertainty and the Communication of Information....Pages 123-139 On Some Open Questions in Statistical Decision Theory....Pages 140-162 A Theory of Binary Decisions....Pages 163-182 Programmes for Human Decision-Making....Pages 183-195 Generalization of Classical Decision Theory....Pages 196-218 Front Matter....Pages 219-219 Psychological Variables and Coalition-Forming Behaviour....Pages 221-246 General Equilibrium in the Economics of Uncertainty....Pages 247-264 Individual, Co-Operative, and Competitive Pricing of Risks....Pages 265-282 Minimax Behaviour and Price Prediction....Pages 283-310 Computation In Organizations: Comparison Of Price Mechanisms And Other Adjustment Processes....Pages 311-356 Front Matter....Pages 357-357 Risk and Uncertainty in the Management of Soviet Firms....Pages 359-374 Some Problems of Risk in a Socialist Economy....Pages 375-382 The Power Element in the Control of an Economy....Pages 383-394 Modern Theories of Economic Forecasting and Short-Term Fluctuation....Pages 395-404 Front Matter....Pages 405-405 Some Problems of Economic Growth in a Planned Economy....Pages 407-421 A Dynamic Leontief Model with Chance-Constraints....Pages 422-441 Front Matter....Pages 405-405 Application of Stochastic Control Processes to Economics....Pages 442-449 Back Matter....Pages 451-455