Optimisation of Production Under Uncertainty The State-Contingent Approach / [electronic resource] :
by Svend Rasmussen.
- VIII, 81p. 20 illus. online resource.
- SpringerBriefs in Economics .
Preface -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Decision Theory Elements -- 3 Utility Function -- 4 State-Contingent Outcome and Preference -- 5 Preferences and Subjective Probabilities -- 6 Formulation of the Decision Problem -- 7 Connections Between Input and State-Contingent Output -- 8 Optimising Production Under Uncertainty -- 9 Summary and Conclusion -- References.
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.