Games, Preferences and Decisions (FIL0227)
Docente:
Anno:
1° anno, 2° anno
Corso di studi:
laurea magistrale in Filosofia
Philosophy International Curriculum M.A.
Philosophy International Curriculum M.A.
MATERIALE DIDATTICO
AA 2023/2024
Altri files
Articoli
- Allais 1953: English translation
- Allais 1953: original text in French
- Bicchieri 2008: How Expectations Affect Behavior
- Bigoni et al. 2015: Behavioral Foundations of the Italian North-South Divide
- Denti: Lecture Notes on Savage's Theorem
- Ellsberg 1961: Risk, Ambiguity and the Savage Axioms
- Fehr and Fischbacher 2003: The Nature of Human Altruism
- Fischbacher, Gächter and Fehr 2001: Are people conditionally cooperative?
- Gilboa: Theory of Decision under Uncertainty, Chapter 10 (Savage's Theorem)
- Gilboa: Theory of Decision under Uncertainty, Chapter 8 (van Neumann-Morgenstern Theorem)
- Harsanyi 1953: Cardinal welfare, indivualistic ethics and interpersonal comparisons of utility
- Hume: Further Excerpts from the Treatise on Human Nature
- Hume: Of the Influencing Motives of the Will (Treatise)
- Kant: Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals (excerpts)
- Levin: Choice under Uncertainty
- Nash 1951: The Bargaining Problem
- Robbins: Interpersonal Comparisons of Utility---A Comment
- Robbins: The Subject Matter of Economics (chapter 1 of "The Nature and Significance of Economics")
- Sen 1977: Rational Fools
- Weber: "Grundbegriffe der Soziologie", Italian translation
- Weber: Social Action and Types of Social Action
Dispense
- Cheat Sheet: Functions, Convexity and Expected Value
- Cheat Sheet: Relations and Orders
- Week 1: Hume on Decision-Making (Michele Vinai)
- Week 2: Interpersonal Comparisons of Utility
- Week 2: Robbins and Weber on social/economic science
- Week 3: The von Neumann & Morgenstern Representation Theorem: Proof Details
- Week 3: The von Neumann-Morgenstern Representation Theorem
- Week 4: Reading Guide for Allais 1953
- Week 4: Risk Aversion
- Week 4: Savage's Representation Theorem
- Week 5+6: Overview of Classical Games
- Week 5: Basic Concepts of Game Theory
- Week 6: Bargaining Theory
Esercitazioni
AA 2022/2023
Altri files
Dispense
- Cheat Sheet: Convex Functions and Expected Value
- Cheat Sheet: Relations and Orders
- Week 3: The von Neumann-Morgenstern Theorem: Proof Details
- Week 3: The von Neumann-Morgenstern Theorem: Statement and Proof Strategy
- Week 4: Risk Aversion in the Expected Utility Model
- Week 4: Savage's Representation Theorem
- Week 5: Game Theory: Basic Concepts
- Week 5: Game Theory: Overview of Games
- Week 6: Bargaining Theory
AA 2021/2022
Dispense
Lezioni
- Week 1+2: Rationality and Utility (Hume, Kant, Robbins, Harsanyi)
- Week 2: The Method of Social Science (Robbins, Weber)
- Week 3: Proof Details for the von Neumann-Morgenstern Theorem
- Week 3: The von Neumann-Morgenstern Representation Theorem
- Week 4: Risk Aversion
- Week 4: Savage's Representation Theorem for Subjective Expected Utility
- Week 5+6: Overview of Games
- Week 5: Basic Concepts of Game Theory
- Week 6: Bargaining Theory
AA 2020/2021
Esercitazioni
Lezioni
- Basic Concepts of Game Theory
- Cheat Sheet: Binary Relations and Orders (Week 3, with exercises)
- Cheat Sheet: Convex Functions and Expected Value (Week 3, with exercises)
- Overview of Classic Games (Week 5+6)
- Rationality and Utility (Week 1+2)
- Reading Guide for Allais 1953 (Week 3)
- Risk Aversion (Week 4)
- Savage's Theorem (Week 4)
- von Neumann--Morgenstern Theorem: Proof Details (Week 3)
- von Neumann--Morgenstern Theorem: Statement, Meaning, Proof Strategy (Week 3)