The Keynes-Ramsey-Savage debate on probability

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Wed, 31/01/2024 - 23:20
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Wed, 31/01/2024 - 23:20
Mainstream economics nowadays usually assumes that agents that have to make choices under conditions of uncertainty behave according to Bayesian rules, axiomatized by Ramsey (1931) and Savage (1954) — that is, they maximize expected utility for some subjective probability measure that is continually updated according to Bayes theorem. If not, they are supposed to be […]