Complete Table of Contents |
Preface |
Suggested Reading |
Optimization / I: |
Feasibility and Desirability / 1: |
Examples / 1.1: |
Separating Can from Want / 1.2: |
What Is Meant by Rational? / 1.3: |
Uncertainty / 1.4: |
Zen and the Absurd / 1.5: |
On Theories and Paradigms / 1.6: |
Utility Maximization / 2: |
Example / 2.1: |
Two Points / 2.2: |
Interpretations / 2.3: |
Measurement Issues / 2.4: |
Utility and Disutility / 2.5: |
Constrained Optimization / 3: |
General Framework / 3.1: |
Example: The Consumer Problem / 3.2: |
Marginality Principle / 3.3: |
Risk and Uncertainty / II: |
Expected Utility / 4: |
Expected Value Maximization / 4.1: |
Expected Utility Maximization / 4.3: |
Elicitation of Utility / 4.4: |
From Simple to Complex / 4.5: |
Probability and Statistics / 5: |
What Is Probability? / 5.1: |
Relative Frequencies as Objective Probabilities / 5.2: |
Subjective Probabilities / 5.3: |
Statistical Pitfalls / 5.4: |
Group Choices / III: |
Aggregation of Preferences / 6: |
Summation of Utilities / 6.1: |
Condorcet's Paradox / 6.2: |
Impossibility Theorems / 6.3: |
Pareto Optimality/Efficiency / 6.4: |
Limitations of Pareto Optimality / 6.5: |
Games and Equilibria / 7: |
Prisoner's Dilemma / 7.1: |
Nash Equilibria / 7.2: |
Equilibrium Selection / 7.3: |
The Power of Commitment / 7.4: |
Common Knowledge / 7.5: |
Extensive Form Games / 7.6: |
Perfectness and Credible Threats / 7.7: |
Free Markets / 8: |
Example: The Case for Globalization / 8.1: |
The First Welfare Theorem / 8.2: |
Limitations of Free Markets / 8.3: |
Rationality and Emotions / 8.4: |
Evolutionary View of Emotions / 9: |
Utility and Well-Being / 10: |
Money Isn't Happiness / 10.1: |
Qualifications / 10.2: |
Epilogue |
Notes |
Index |
Online Appendixes |
Table of Contents and Downloadable PDFs |
Complete Table of Contents |
Preface |
Suggested Reading |
Optimization / I: |
Feasibility and Desirability / 1: |
Examples / 1.1: |