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The Possibility of a Welfare Policy in a World of Emotion-Driven Individuals: A Humean Point of View
Lapidus, André - HAL - 2011
Based on Hume's major philosophical works and on some of his Essays, this paper discusses formally the feasibility, from a Humean point of view, of a welfare policy which would aim at promoting the highest individual happiness whereas individual decisions, like individual happiness, are...
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Decision theory under uncertainty
Etner, Johanna; Jeleva, Meglena; Tallon, Jean-Marc - HAL - 2009
We review recent advances in the field of decision making under uncertainty or ambiguity. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010738626
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Decision Making with Imprecise Probabilistic Information
Gajdos, Thibault; Tallon, Jean-Marc; Vergnaud, … - HAL - 2004
We develop an axiomatic approach to decision under uncertainty that explicitly takes into account the information … available to the decision maker. The information is described by a set of priors and a reference prior. We define a notion of … imprecision for this informational setting and show that a decision maker who is averse to information imprecision maximizes the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010750380
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A study of the dynamic of influence through differential equations
Maruani, Emmanuel; Grabisch, Michel; Rusinowska, Agnieszka - HAL - 2012
agent is inclined to make a particular decision, but due to a possible influence of the others, his final decision may be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011025754
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Why Rationality May Be a Consequence of Hume's Theory of Choice
Diaye, Marc-Arthur; Lapidus, André - HAL - 2005
Facing R. Sugden's criticism of our interpretation, it is shown in this paper that rationality appears as a possible consequence of Hume's theory of choice. We first argue that Sugden's dismissal of the preference relation from the type of rationality through which Hume's theory is apprehended,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008789356
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Un leader doit-il toujours dire la vérité pour justifier ses choix ?
Lebraty, Jacques; Lebraty, Jean-Fabrice - HAL - 2007
La notion de transparence de l'information tend aujourd'hui à être considérée non seulement comme valeur éthique de l'entreprise mais plus concrètement comme sous-tendant la mise en œuvre d'une politique moderne de "Corporate Gouvernance".Il est donc particulièrement intéressant...
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Pleasure and belief in Hume's decision process
Diaye, Marc-Arthur; Lapidus, André - HAL - 2012
decision, like the one developed in Diaye and Lapidus (2005a). Although we support the idea that Hume was in some way a …, from a Humean point of view, “belief” deals with decision under risk or uncertainty, as well with intertemporal decision …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008790780
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The Valuation of Decision and Individual Welfare: A Humean Approach
Lapidus, André - HAL - 2010
Drawing on passages in Book II of the Treatise of Human Nature (1739-40), in the Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals (1751), in the Dissertation on the Passions (1757), and in some of the Essays (1777), this paper is built upon Hume's distinction between three alternative valuations of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008790949
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Management Tools for RetD Project Portfolios in Complex Organizations – the case of an international pharmaceutical firm
Bayart, Denis; Bonhomme, Yves; Midler, Christophe - HAL - 2000
Project Portfolio Management (PPM) is a growing issue in both professional and academic circles. The typology of Cooper et al. (1998) has pictured the variety of PPM formalized approaches into four types (financial, strategic, scoring and “bubble diagram”). While the use of formalized...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008791076
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Incentive Effects on Risk Attitude in Small Probability Prospects
Lefebvre, Mathieu; Vieider, Ferdinand; Villeval, … - HAL - 2009
Most studies on the role of incentives on risk attitude report data obtained from within-subject experimental investigations. This may however raise an issue of sequentiality of effects as later choices may be influenced by earlier ones. This paper reports instead between-subject results on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008791266