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“Risk, Ambiguity, and the Savage Axioms.”
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I. Are there uncertainties that are not risks? 643. — II. Uncertainties that are not risks, 647. — III. Why are some uncertainties not risks? — 656.
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- Authors
- Ellsberg, D.
- Affiliations
- RAND Corporation (US)
- Corresponding author
- Ellsberg, Daniel
- Venue
- The Quarterly Journal of Economics
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press (OUP)
- Published
- 1961-11
- Volume
- 75
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 643
- ISSN
- 0033-5533 (ISSN-L)
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- W2027047704
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- FWCI
- 0.72
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- The Quarterly Journal of Economics (publishedVersion)
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- Topics
- Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › General Decision Sciences › Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics
- Social Sciences › Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Economics and Econometrics › Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Risk Perception and Management
- Keywords
- risk, ambiguity, Savage axioms, expected utility theory, decision making under uncertainty, ambiguity aversion, subjective probability
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