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Oxford university press 2002 authors michael allingham oxford university abstract we make choices all the time about trivial matters, about how to spend our money, about how to spend our time, about what to do with our lives. A secondary purpose is to comment on attitudes to risk and of the concept of knowledge to examine how these problems impact on rational choice theory. At the lower level, its models contain assumptions about individual cognitive. We make choices all the timeabout how to spend our money, about how to spend our time, about what to do with our lives. He read natural philosophy and then political economy at the university of edinburgh and subsequently taught at a number of universities in the united kingdom and the united states. He read natural philosophy and then political economy at the university of. It introduces ideas from economics, philosophy, and other areas, showing how the theory applies to decisions in everyday life, and to particular situations such as gambling and the allocation of resources. A very short introduction by michael allingham from waterstones today. Michael allingham s most popular book is choice theory. We make choices all the time about trivial matters, about how to spend our money, about how. Explores what it means to be rational, and what kind of criteria are we applying when we say that a choice is rational.
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