This paper investigates the role of probability conditionals in hypothetical reasoning and rational decision making. Its main result is a proof of a representation theorem for preferences defined on sets of sentences (and, in particular, conditional sentences), where an agent's preference for...

This paper is an empirical investigation of the determinants of city growth in Autralia from 1981 to 1991. Our basic goal is to explain the population and labour force growth of a cross section of cities in the time period using variables representing the final characteristics of cities.