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The road less travelled : Keynes and Knight on probability and uncertainty

Gerrard, Bill - In: Review of political economy 36 (2024) 3, pp. 1253-1278

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Sine praejudicio? : economics and the 2014 Scottish independence referendum

Dow, Sheila C.; McMaster, Robert; Cumbers, Andrew - In: Cambridge journal of economics 42 (2018) 3, pp. 597-615

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Weight of argument and economic decisions

Vercelli, Alessandro - Dipartimento di Politica Economica, Finanza e Sviluppo … - 2010

This paper aims to clarify the controversial concept of “weight of argument” as introduced by Keynes in the Treatise of …, and for what reason, we should expect that the weight of argument has a significant impact on economic decisions. A few … interpretation of the concept of weight of argument that we believe consistent with the spirit of Keynes’s approach and that …

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Ambiguity and uncertainty in Ellsberg and Shackle

Basili, Marcello; Zappia, Carlo - Dipartimento di Economia Politica e Statistics, … - 2005

This paper argues that Ellsberg’s and Shackle’s frameworks for discussing the limits of the (subjective) probabilistic approach to decision theory are not as different as they may appear. To stress the common elements in their theories Keynes’s Treatise on Probability provides an essential...

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