Foundations of Utility and Risk Theory with Applications formatIsbn:Hardcover 9789027712394 Efforts to describe and model van Oystaeyen Efforts to describe and model the molecular structure of biological membranes go back to the beginning of the last century Calibration of these errors is quite expensive Maurice Allais discusses four di~ferent interpretations o~ the axioms o~ probability and explains the need ~or an empirical characterization o~ the concept of chance With that purpose in mind we have selected a mixture of applied and theoretical papers that we hope will appeal to a wide spectrum o~ readers ~rom graduate students in social science departments and business schools to people involved in making hardheaded decisions in business and government