Collected Papers of Kenneth J. Arrow, Volume 3: Individual Choice under Certainty and Uncertainty

by Kenneth J. Arrow

Overview

Unlike the papers of some other great economists, those of Kenneth Arrow are being read and studied today with even greater care and attention than when they first appeared in the journals. The publication of his collected papers will therefore be welcomed by economists and other social scientists and in particular by graduate students, who can draw from them the deep knowledge and the discernment in selection of scientific problems that only a master can offer. The author has added headnotes to certain well-known papers, describing how he came to write them.

The third volume of Kenneth Arrow's Collected Papers concerns the basic concept of rationality as it applies to an economic decision maker. In particular, it addresses the problem of choice faced by consumers in a multicommodity world and presents specific models of choice useful in economic analysis. It also discusses choice models under uncertainty, giving the basic theory and critiques of this theory based on experimental evidence and applications. Among the major papers are "Alternative Approaches to the Theory of Choice in Risk-Taking Situations," a masterly survey of subjective probability and choice theory, and "The Theory of Risk Aversion," an exposition of the theory of choice under uncertainty.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780674137622
Publisher:	Harvard University Press
Publication date:	10/04/1984
Series:	Collected Papers of Kenneth J. Arrow Series , #3
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	284
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.85(d)

About the Author

A past president of the American Economic Association, Kenneth J. Arrow was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science in 1972.

Table of Contents

1. Homogeneous Systems in Mathematical Economics: A Comment

2. Alternative Approaches to the Theory of Choice in Risk-Taking Situations

3. The Determination of Many-Commodity Preference Scales by Two-Commodity Comparisons

4. Utilities, Attitudes, Choices: A Review Note

5. The Measurement of Price Changes

6. Rational Choice Functions and Orderings

7. Additive Logarithmic Demand Functions and the Slutsky Relations

8. Utility and Expectation in Economic Behavior

9. The Theory of Risk Aversion

10. Exposition of the Theory of Choice under Uncertainty

11. The Use of Unbounded Utility Functions in Expected-Utility Maximization: Response

12. Optimal Insurance and Generalized Deductibles

13. Risk Perception in Psychology and Economics

Index