Le Comportement de l'Homme Rationnel devant le Risque: Critique des Postulats et Axiomes de l'Ecole Americaine

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Maurice Allais

Publication date: 1953

Published in: Econometrica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2307/1907921



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