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Risk, Choice, and Uncertainty: Three Centuries of Economic Decision-Making
Business & Economics > Economic History
- Columbia University Press
- Hardcover
- 9780231194747
- 9.1 X 6.2 X 1 inches
- 1.15 pounds
- Business & Economics > Economic History
- (Single Author) Asian American
- English
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Book Description
In Risk, Choice, and Uncertainty, George G. Szpiro offers a new narrative of the three-century history of the study of decision making, tracing how crucial ideas have evolved and telling the stories of the thinkers who shaped the field. Szpiro examines economics from the early days of theories spun from anecdotal evidence to the rise of a discipline built around elegant mathematics through the past half century's interest in describing how people actually behave. Considering the work of Locke, Bentham, Jevons, Walras, Friedman, Tversky and Kahneman, Thaler, and a range of other thinkers, he sheds light on the vast scope of discovery since Bernoulli first proposed a solution to the St. Petersburg Paradox. Presenting fundamental mathematical theories in easy-to-understand language, Risk, Choice, and Uncertainty is a revelatory history for readers seeking to grasp the grand sweep of economic thought.
Author Bio
George G Szpiro was born in Vienna, Austria, grew up in Switzerland, and live & work in New York City, Jerusalem, Israel and Villeneuve, Switzerland.
George G. Szpiro is an award-winning author and journalist. A longtime correspondent for the Swiss daily?Neue Zürcher Zeitung, his many books include?Numbers Rule: The Vexing Mathematics of Democracy, from Plato to the Present?(2010) and?Pricing the Future: Finance, Physics, and the 300-Year Journey to the Black-Scholes Equation?(2011).
Books
Kepler’s Conjecture: How Some of the Greatest Minds in History Helped Solve one of the Oldest Math Problems of the World; John Wiley, 2003.
The Secret Life of Numbers: 50 Easy Pieces on How Mathematicians Work and Think; Joseph Henry Press (The National Academy of Sciences), 2006.
Poincaré’s Conjecture: The Hundred-Year Quest to Solve One of Math's Greatest Puzzles; Dutton, 2007.
A Mathematical Medley: Fifty easy Pieces on Mathematics; The American Mathematical Association (AMA), 2010
Numbers Rule: The Vexing Mathematics of Democracy, from Plato to the Present; Princeton University Press, 2010.
Pricing the Future: Finance, Physics, and the 300-year Journey to the Black-Scholes Equation; Basic Books 2011
Education
- 1968 - 1972 Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH), Zürich, Switzerland, MSc mathematics
- 1973 - 1975 Stanford University, MBA
- 1975 - 1984 Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel, Ph.D. mathematical economics
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