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Rationality and Operators: The Formal Structure of Preferences
This unique book develops an operational approach to preference and rationality as the author employs operators over binary relations to capture the concept of rationality. A preference is a basis of individual behavior and social judgment and is mathematically regarded as a binary relation on the set of alternatives. Traditionally, an individual/social preference is assumed to satisfy compl…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-981-10-1896-1
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
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- Call Number
- 330.16
Mutual Insurance 1550-2015
In the modern Western world, we tend to be insured by the state or for-profit insurers. We have privileged this system over mutual or micro-insurance, whose long and rich history we tend to forget. Yet, mutual and micro-insurance is becoming increasingly important, both in the Western and in the non-Western world and bears re-examination. This book traces the track record of mutual insurance…
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- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-1-137-53109-4
- Collation
- XIII, 321
- Series Title
- Palgrave Studies in the History of Finance
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