This paper surveys the main probabilistic discrete choice models used in economics and psychology. We first discuss the historical and epistemological foundations of these models. The two main families are considered: models with stochastic choice rule and stochastic utility models. A detailed...

We model public choice in a number of cases where a government, since it cannot design an optimal policy as a whole, resorts to a sequential, myopic approach; and which is not free of error. We use this framework to explore governmental budgeting and welfare economics. We develop various...