The following analysis is meant to contribute to a history of rational choice theory. More specifically, I provide a multi-layered account of rational choice theory in terms of its biography as a scientific object. I argue that its axiomatic version, choice theory traveled between different...

chapter 1 Utility in Decision Theory -- chapter 2 Foundations of Stochastic Dominance -- chapter 3 Issues in Stochastic Dominance -- chapter 4 Financial Risk Measures -- chapter 5 Choquet Integrals as Risk Measures -- chapter 6 Foundational Statistics for Stochastic Dominance -- chapter 7 Models...

I provide axiomatic foundations for a model of taste uncertainty with endogenous learning through consumption. In this setting, uncertainty is over an unobservable, subjective state space. Preference over lottery–menu pairs is sufficient to identify the state space and the learning process. In...