between sovereign governments and foreign investors. He explains how governments acquire reputations in the eyes of investors … predictions about the dynamics of cooperation: how investors treat first-time borrowers, how access to credit evolves as debtors … become more seasoned, and how countries ascend and descend the reputational ladder by acting contrary to investors …

The standard theory of decision making under uncertainty advises the decision maker to form a statistical model linking … outcomes to decisions and then to choose the optimal distribution of outcomes. This assumes that the decision maker trusts the … model completely. But what should a decision maker do if the model cannot be trusted? Lars Hansen and Thomas Sargent, two …

Democracy</i>, Steven Brams, a leading authority in the use of mathematics to design decision-making processes, shows how social …

serious implications for public policymaking. In this book, leading experts in psychology, decision research, policy analysis …

serious implications for public policymaking. In this book, leading experts in psychology, decision research, policy analysis …

contends, abortion provides protection from downside risk. A pregnant woman who would otherwise give birth to an unwanted child …