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The question of how to deal with uncertainty in environmental decision-making is cur-rently attracting considerable … uncertainty becomes particularly apparent in the field of environmental policy because environmental prob-lems are regarded as … the challenge to develop scientific decision support methods that are capable of dealing with uncertainty in a systematic …
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Making decisions under uncertainty is at the core of human decision-making, particularly economic decision-making. In … economics, a distinction is often made between quantifiable uncertainty (risk) and un-quantifiable uncertainty (Knight …, Uncertainty and Profit, 1921). However, this distinction is often ignored by, in effect, the quantification of unquantifiable …
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economy, this paper suggests the two disciplines face a common problem when it comes to uncertainty. It is argued that … intervention, are as yet any nearer to providing robust solutions to the problems posed by Keynesian uncertainty. Under the … uncertainty follows, suggesting a future research agenda in this area of common interest to AI and economics. …
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In the history of economic thought, Shackle was one of the representative critics about probability based economic … theory. Specifically, he constructed his own concept of subjective uncertainty called potential surprise to replace … probability. In 1980s, the potential surprise is axiomatized by Katzner as Kolmogorov-styled measure defined on the &#x1d70e …
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graphing tools are used, such as, probability paper and different specifications of exponential functions representing … cumulative probability distributions. The argument is that traditional time-series analysis implies a given universe, usually … uncertainty (nonmeasureable risk) due to regime changes. The analogs show the investor how to determine when a regime change has …
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generally guided by call-put option pricing models - which rely on an ergodic notion of probability that conforms to a normal … distribution function. This paper considers critiques of the above models, which include Keynes's Treatise on Probability (1921 … uncertainty." The methodological issues, as can be pointed out, are relevant in the context of policy issues and social …
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Conventional theories of capitalism are mired in a deep crisis: after centuries of debate, they are still unable to tell us what capital is. Liberals and Marxists both think of capital as an 'economic' entity that they count in universal units of ‘utils’ or 'abstract labour', respectively....
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process has an high probability to reach a final decision. We also better qualify the degree of manipulability of such a final …
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In this paper we develop on a geometric model of social choice among bundles of interdependent elements (objects). Social choice can be seen as a process of search for optima in a complex multi-dimensional space and objects determine a decomposition of such a space into subspaces. We present a...
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disruption for two retailers occurs with different probability. We analyze the effect of occurrence probability of demand … supply chain are decreasing with the occurrence probability of demand disruption. Originality/value: It is helpful for supply …
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