Article ID: CBB001021374

De usu artis conjectandi in jure: quid de oeconomia (politica)? (2006)

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Pradier, Pierre-Charles (Author)


Journal Electronique d'Histoire des Probabilités et de la Statistique
Volume: 2, no. 1b
Issue: 1b


Publication Date: 2006
Edition Details: http://www.jehps.net/Novembre2006/Pradier3.pdf (Accessed on November 18, 2010). Part of a special issue, “Bernoulli's Art of Conjecture”
Language: French

TheeconomistsdidnotfindanypieceworthofinterestintheArsConjectandiuntiltheirdisciplinebecamethescienceofchoice,bythe1930's.JamesBernoulli'sbook,aswellastheworkofhisnephewsNicholasandDanielcanneverthelessbeconsideredaslandmarks,ifnotasthebirthcertificate,ofeconomicrationality.Jamessketchesdecisionrationality;Nicholaslooksforconciliationbetweenpartieswiththesamemercantilegoodsense,thiswell-behavedself-interestofmerchants,asillustratedbyDaniel'sexamples.TheeconomistsarenowbusywiththeresearchprogramdrawnbytheBernoullifamily.SomereadersofKeynesarestilldubiousaboutdecisiontheorybecauseofuncertainty,whilesomefundamentaliststhinktheeconomic(Bayesian)theorytobeperfect.TheireconomictheorymodelsaworldfullofBayesianegoisticdecision-makers.Betweentheseextremestancesthereissomeroomforthemodernstochasticandsomereflectionaboutit.

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Authors & Contributors
Zabell, Sandy L.
Yeo, Yeongseo
Weatherson, Brian
Twardy, Charles R.
Teira, David
Stapleford, Thomas Anderson
Journals
Journal Electronique d'Histoire des Probabilités et de la Statistique
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science
Statistical Science
Philosophy of Science
Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences
College Mathematics Journal
Publishers
University of Missouri-Columbia
Yale University Press
Johns Hopkins University Press
Clarendon Press
Cambridge University Press
Harvard University
Concepts
Probability and statistics
Mathematics
Bayes theorem
Economics
Philosophy
Logic
People
Bernoulli, Jakob
Bernoulli, family
Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm von
Bernoulli, Johann
Bayes, Thomas
Wald, Abraham
Time Periods
18th century
20th century
19th century
17th century
Enlightenment
20th century, early
Places
United States
Great Britain
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