This book tries to sort out the different meanings of uncertainty and to discover their foundations. It shows that uncertainty can be represented using various tools and mental guidelines. Coverage also examines alternative ways to deal with risk and risk attitude concepts. Behavior under...

Rethinking rationality / Gerd Gigerenzer and Reinhard Selten -- What is bounded rationality? / Reinhard Selten -- The adaptive toolbox / Gerd Gigerenzer -- Fast and frugal heuristics for environmentally bounded minds / Peter M. Todd -- Evolutionary adaptation and the economic concept of bounded...

Whether we like it or not we all feel that the world is uncertain. From choosing a new technology to selecting a job, we rarely know in advance what outcome will result from our decisions. Unfortunately, the standard theory of choice under uncertainty developed in the early forties and fifties...