The book provides a short review of the classical approach to planning and decision making under uncertainty. It further explains the concept of state-contingent goods, and it extends earlier work on the state-contingent approach to describing production under uncertainty to the problems involved in optimising production under uncertainty.
The book provides a short review of the classical approach to planning and decision making under uncertainty. It further explains the concept of state-contingent goods, and it extends earlier work on the state-contingent approach to describing production under uncertainty to the problems involved in optimising production under uncertainty.
The state-contingent approach is described in a normative context Good numerical examples of how the state-contingent approach works Provides very good explanation of the state-contingent approach Gives a good review of the classical approach to the theory of planning under uncertainty Extends production economic theory to uncertain environment
Svend Rasmussen
Good and Bad States of Nature Production Risk Averse State-Contingent Goods Utility Function