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Should Agricultural And Resource Economists Care That The Subjective Expected Utility Hypothesis Is False?

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Woodward, Richard T.

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This paper argues that the subjective expected utility (SEU) hypothesis has serious limitations in both positive and normative analysis. In addition to experimental evidence, we discuss examples where alternatives to the SEU model provide a richer framework for the study problems of choice under uncertainty.

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Paper provided by American Agricultural Economics Association (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association) in its series 1998 Annual meeting, August 2-5, Salt Lake City, UT with number 20941.

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