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Choices, Values, and Frames presents an empirical and theoretical challenge to classical utility theory, offering prospect theory as an alternative framework. Extensions and applications to diverse economic phenomena and to studies of consumer behavior are discussed. The book also elaborates on framing effects and other demonstrations that preferences are constructed in context, and it develops new approaches to the standard view of choice-based utility. As with the classic 1982 volume, Judgment Under Uncertainty, this volume is comprised of papers published in diverse academic journals. The editors have written several new chapters and a preface to provide a context for the work.

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A relatively new but useful paradigm for risk management.......2006-12-23

Most, if not all who have done financial modeling have made some use of prospect theory in order to assess and measure risk in financial instruments, although this use has yet to be widespread throughout the risk management community. The reason for this is very simple: prospect theory gives another view of risk that is different from the traditional one offered by classical economics, and one that is closer to what is exemplified in real economic data. Its theoretical foundations are less clear however, as compared to what is found in the now canonical approaches to risk based on Merton, Black, Scholes, etc. In prospect theory it is assumed that individuals make financial decisions relative to a reference point, and loss aversion plays a predominant role. In housing markets for example, some homeowners are reluctant to sell their properties if the prices fall below the market value. Empirical data shows that when house prices decline, houses sit for exceedingly long periods of time with their asking prices exceeding greatly the expected selling prices. These houses are usually withdrawn from the market without being sold. Classical economic theory would suggest that they would be sold with the asking price being very close to the market price, since the sellers are assumed to be rational and weigh expected gains in the same way as they expected losses. In prospect theory however, the value function for an individual is concave in gains but convex in losses, and is much more sensitive to losses that to gains of an equivalent size.

Prospect theory is thoroughly and beautifully discussed in this book and this is due to some degree by the presence of articles written by Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky, its originators. As outlined by these two researchers, prospect theory asserts that individuals tend to be sensitive to changes in values rather than absolute values and have diminishing marginal sensitivity to changes. This is reflected in the shape of their utility functions: qualitatively speaking they are steepest in regions where the marginal sensitivity to change is greatest and then they flatten out in directions where the changes in wealth increase. As a consequence, individuals prefer a small gain that is certain to a larger gain that is uncertain. Conversely, they prefer the possibility of a larger gain than the certainty of a small loss.

To motivate the content of the book, Kahneman writes an excellent preface, giving an overview of what to expect in the book and thus allowing readers to assign their own weights to which particular articles they find of interest. Some readers may want to read the entire book, but it seems likely that only selected articles will be chosen for careful study, based of course on the background of the reader. However, the first article in the book, which was published by Kahneman and Tversky in 1983, should probably be read by everyone interested in prospect theory and its foundations. The second article is a more quantitative formulation of what was said in the first, and contains an in-depth critique of expected utility theory. The content of this article should be helpful to those readers who work in a risk management environment and need to construct realistic models of choice under risk.

If the development of these models is guided by prospect theory, the analyst will arrive at a final product that could with fairness be classified as "microeconomic." The challenge in using prospect theory is to conglomerate the individual choices so that a risk manager can speak intelligently of the risk of a portfolio that is based on these individual choices. Some insight that could guide this development can be found in Part Five of the book, which covers applications of prospect theory. One particular article that stands out in this regard is the one by S. Benartzi and R. H. Thaler on the equity premium puzzle. This article attempts to understand, in the context of prospect theory, why fixed income securities have underperformed relative to stocks for the last nine decades, from about a 7% annual real return on stocks to a 1% return on treasury bills. The author's simulations indicate that the loss aversion aspect of prospect theory gives a better explanation to the equity premium puzzle than the traditional approaches based on expected maximum utility.

Still another interesting article in Part Five is the one on the `money illusion' written by E. Shafir, P. Diamond, and A. Tversky, and which first appeared in publication in 1997. The term `money illusion' is used to refer to the tendency of some individuals to think in terms of nominal values instead of real monetary ones. It is thus at odds to the picture offered by classical economics with its assumption of perfect rationality. The authors point to studies in cognitive psychology that indicate that some individuals form alternative representations of identical situations, and that these lead therefore to different responses. Examples of this are given, leading the authors to assert that the money illusion can be interpreted as a bias in assessing the real value of an economic transaction. This bias is induced by a nominal evaluation and its magnitude is determined by the real salience between the nominal and real representations, and the sophistication of the decision maker. This reviewer has used these types of considerations in modeling home equity markets.

Risk decisions finally explained .......2006-07-31

I wonder, what can one say abot work that has already won the Nobel Prize that can possibly add to the estimation of a work? Being far too insignificant to lend any great weight to the already abundant praise for this work, I can only perhaps illuminate an application of the material that seems to have been overlooked.

Regarding the field of risk management (not the wll street kind, but just regular risk decision making in business) this book is of inestimable value. I have often notices certain biases towards risk aversion or risk taking when business decisions are beign made. Much seemed to be due to the context. This work shows exactly why and how decision bias arises. This is the foundation for the creation of a useful risk decision analytical framework.

The paper of interest to me relate to why people will choose to take or avoid risks that, according to utility theory, are the wrong decisions. For example, why pepole buy insurance even when it is a better financial choice to be uninsured. These works explain why and under what circumstances one's biases override logic. Why this is not a common text on the desk of every risk manager, I will never know.

In this one volume, there is enough information to design an utterly new field of risk management and to solve most every problem one can face. This has become the one reference material that I considre indespensible. throw out the CPCU and ARM texts that you never use and can't bear to read ever again. Chuck them and place this volume in their place and you will be far, far better off.

Kahneman & Tversky and some excellent company explain why we're not so 'rational' as we think........2006-01-09

Daniel Kahneman and the late Amos Tversky are two of the Godfathers of behavioural economics - and their body of work since the 1970s gave a really firm yank on the rug of rationality that had thus-far supported traditional theories of human economic behaviour. The "rational consumer" we met in Economics 101 is actually a bundle of conflicts and paradoxes - and this volume is a colleciton of 42 essays that explain why people can make seemingly illogical decisions when confronted by choices, or risks.

The papers, some of them densely mathematical and others written in cogent plain English, demonstrate through experiments and some quite entertaining observations the various layers of logic we use when we make trade-off decisions.

One human skew comes from the way we tend to weigh up uncertainty and risk: and our tendency to vividly imagine downsides while having only a loose picture of upsides.

A second family of biases comes from our tendency to contextualise decisions and choices in different ways: to "reframe" the way we see problems and thus skew our outcomes.

A third family of human biases comes from our many perceptual biases, for example in the way we recall standout features from one sample, and then act as if these standouts (a couple of famous names for example)are representative of the whole sample.

Taken together we get a rich picture of human decision behaviour that is applicable in economics, marketing or - (for example) in the specific worlds of medical professionals who must evaluate data, frame each situation and make critical professional decisions.

This text is important, and provides rich reading for researchers in a wide number of fields. In the last 100 years of the history of human psychology, the emphasis has generally been on the background the nature/nurture of the subject. Kahneman and Tversky and their good company of researchers demonstrate that if we shine the spotlight on the decision-making processes of humans we can uncover many, many answers to why we behave as we do.

I took a star off for those hyper-mathematical papers. These weren't at all user friendly, and while I use statistical analysis each day in my work, I'm old-fashioned enough to think that a book still must communicate verbally. But that's my skew. Don't let it put you off the importance of this collection of extremely interesting studies.

Excellent.......2005-08-09

New theme, not always easy to understand but so interesting, a must for a financier.

A shocking ignorance of the contributions of JM Keynes.......2004-11-10

This collection of 42 essays,most of which were first published as articles in academic journals ,demonstrates a shocking amount of ignorance on the part of the essay authors concerning the technical contributions made by J M Keynes to decision theory in his 1921 book,A Treatise on Probability(TP).This is most likely due to the great influence on economists and philosophers of the error filled reviews of the TP made by Frank P Ramsey in 1922 and 1926.Ramsey based his review of the TP primarily on chapters 1-4 of the TP plus several pages taken at random from the other four parts of the TP.Ramsey totally misread and misinterpreted Keynes's initial,elementary discussion of the measurement of probabilities in chapter 3 of the TP.Ramsey misinterpreted the meaning of the terms"nonnumerical" and "nonmeasurable" to mean that Keynes was arguing that it was ,in general,not possible to use numbers to quantify the probability relationship.Thus,Ramsey concluded in both essays that Keynes's nonnumerical probabilities were "mysterious"entities that did not satisfy the probability calculus.Exactly the opposite is the case.Keynes warned the reader of chapter 3 of the TP on p.37 that only after Part II of the TP had been covered would Keynes's approach to quantification be complete.In chapters 15 and 17 ,as well as in chapters 20 and 22,Keynes made it quite clear that by nonnumerical he meant not by a single numeral(number).Thus,it took TWO numerals(numbers)to estimate a probability in general.Keynes is the founder of the interval estimate approach to probability.Thus,nonnumerical is defined explicitly to mean"...between numerical limits"on page 160 of the TP.The reader should note that Keynes emphasized the word "between".Keynes called his approach "inexact numerical APPROXIMATION".Keynes is the founder of the interval estimate approach to probability.A reader of this book,however,might not even know that Keynes ever lived.Keynes is the first scholar in history to specifically define an index,w, to measure the weight of the evidence(what Ellsberg called the ambiguity of the evidence and Savage called the vagueness of the evidence).On p.315 of the TP ,w is defined to lie on the unit interval [0,1].Thus,0 <=w <=1.This is 40 years before Ellsberg defined rho on the same unit interval.Keynes developed a decision formula that incorporated variables that allowed a decision maker to include w(or rho)and nonlinear probability preferences(nonadditive sub and super probabilities)into a conventional coefficient of weight and risk,c.The use of the c coefficient solves all of the paradoxes of subjective expected utility theory as well as accounting for all of the effects discussed over the years by Kahneman and Tversky,such as the certainty,reflection,isolation and preference reversal effects.Keynes would certainly agree with essay 11 by M Rabin,titled"Diminishing Marginal Utility of Wealth Cannot Explain Risk Aversion",since this exact conclusion is derived by Keynes on p. 315 of theTP. Despite the glaring omission of any discussion of Keynes's contributions to decision theory,I still recommend that a specialist buy this book.It contains many valuable articles.

Kahneman D. y A. Tversky [Ed.] (2000); Choices, Values, and Frames.(Reseña de libro): An article from: temas de coyuntura

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Kahneman D. y A. Tversky [Ed.] (2000); Choices, Values, and Frames.(Reseña de libro): An article from: temas de coyuntura
Ronald Balza Guanipa
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Title: Kahneman D. y A. Tversky [Ed.] (2000); Choices, Values, and Frames.(Reseña de libro)
Author: Ronald Balza Guanipa
Publication: temas de coyuntura (Magazine/Journal)
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Choices, Values, and Frames
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pretty generic.......2004-02-24

I got this book used so it wasn't a big deal, but only the first half deals with boxers. The second half is a comprehensive training, health, and general care section for dogs. Only problem is there are hundreds of pictures, but not of Boxers! Boxers have their own training and health problems that this book didn't cover. I think if the info was going to be generic there should have at least been pictures of Boxers throughout. Worth the used price though.

Are you a Boxer fanatic?.......2003-01-23

I am. I read this book before my Boxer, Bubba, was born. Author Stephanie Abraham has bred boxers for 33 years. She has also been a judge for 21 years and is on the Board of Directors of the ABC. This book covers total care basics (i.e., feeding, grooming, health) and specific Boxer traits, training and a chapter by a Dog Fancy columnist. Includes list of recommended reading and resources.

Good for beginners, like myself.......1999-06-22

This is a great book for beginners, like me! I'm probablly going to buy a boxers soon and it was very good with the basics. Of course, this book is in the favor of the Boxer and does not have many cons about buying a Boxer. Very good to get to know the breed though.

A good book for someone wishing to learn the basics.......1998-10-04

I read this book in a little over 2 hours and found it to be well written and informative, especially since I've never owned a dog. It gives you insite into this breed and simple instructions on care and training.

A good book for general information........1998-08-25

This is a good book for someone who is not really familiar with Boxers and wants basic information. For someone who is already a Boxer fan, something a little more substantial is in order.

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Release Date: 1985-06-12

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The Garden Trellis is an exquisitely illustrated, yet very practical garden gift book. Within its covers, gardeners will be inspired to incorporate small trellises in their gardens and will learn how to build nine simple but elegant designs. A section of thirty fully-illustrated plant profiles will help them choose vines--honeysuckle or roses, porcelain berries or moon flowers--that are appropriate for their gardens and for particular trellis designs.

Written and illustrated by Ferris Cook, The Garden Trellis is suffused with personal experience as well as horticultural detail and lore. Cook--editor of Garden Dreams (1991) and Invitation to the Garden (1992)--draws upon her own gardening observations to explain how she first approached trellises and vines and what she has learned about them. Filled with anecdotes, this charming book also contains an abundance of practical information. Clear and concise instructions for building the trellises, and a list of materials needed, make The Garden Trellis tremendously useful. It will convince gardeners that trellises can be easy to build and that they can transform their gardens with simple vertical accents. A list of sources for ready-made trellises, plants, and seeds will help even the novice trellis gardener get started.

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WORTHLESS.......2005-04-29

I PURCHASED THIS BOOK LOOKING FOR TRELLIS DESIGNS. WAS GREATLY DISAPPOINTED NOT ONLY IN THE QUANTITY BUT ALSO IN THE QUALITY. SAVE YOUR MONEY.

Building a Garden Trellis.......2000-06-21

This is a very nice book with excellent illustrations and descriptions of different climbing vines that can be used on a trellis. It also includes pictures of nine trellises that you can build yourself, with the dimensions for each one. A background in woodworking is helpful. The instructions tell you what materials, tools, and supplies are needed, but does not go into detail about the actual construction. Since I have never done woodworking before, I had to get help from friends. I also referred to the Readers Digest "New Complete Do-It-Yourself Manual". I was really pleased at how nice my first trellis turned out. I am getting ready to build another one. The hard part is choosing which trellis pattern I want to use next.

a decent book on building trelises.......2000-06-06

This book provides some measured drawings and information about what types of plants work with trelises. The plant information is good and the drawings are decent, however, they do leave some important measurements out. I have built two trelises for family and friends and they LOVED them. If you can get by with just the basics then this book is useful.

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This volume is concerned with tracing the different stages in the formation of the Qumran Community Rule in the light of the material from Cave 4 that has only recently become available. The first part of this ground-breaking work is devoted to determining the differences between the manuscripts of the Community Rule found in Caves 1, 4 and 5. The second part deals with the relationship between the various versions of the Community Rule. The third part aims at creating an overall picture of the literary development of this document and includes a discussion of the different elements within it as well as a comparison of the parallel passages, which reflect different stages in the redaction of the document.

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Jennifer Garner won over millions of fans as double-agent Sydney Bristow when the show Alias first aired in September 2001. Since then, she?s been wowing viewers with glamorous costumes and wigs, a body that won?t quit, and acting chops that earned her a Golden Globe in 2002 -- edging out seasoned veterans Lorraine Braco and Edie Falco (both nominated for The Sopranos), and Amy Brenneman (Judging Amy).

But where did she come from?

A.K.A. Jennifer Garner explains it all. It is the ultimate fan?s resource. Not only does it provide information about the show and Jennifer?s character, it gives the background of the real Jennifer?a self-professed homebody with a penchant for TV and home-cooked meals.

Follow Jennifer?s career path -- from her early days in summer stock and a small guest role on Law & Order through numerous small TV and film appearances and to the role that made her a star.

This book is a must-have for all Jennifer Garner fans!

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I DON'T CARE! :).......2002-11-23

O.k. so this wassn't the best biography, I already knew all of this stuff, but just the fact the someone bothered to write a book on her is fabulous. I am OBBSESSSED with Alias ask me anythaing about Alias or Jenn and I know it, but it wasn't the best book i'v read... but it is A MUST HAVE for any true Jennifer Garner or Alias fan! if you want a really good Alias book, get Alias:Declassified it is writen by one of the guys (Mark Cotta Vaz)that help in the production of Alias!

AKA Jennifer Garner.......2002-10-13

Jennifer Garner plays Sydney Bristow TV's new hero. Saving the world, destroying SD-6 and doing it with style. But what about the life behind Sydney Bristow? This book is just all about that. It tell you about Jennifer life, her home, and what inspried her to become and actress. And how she got the part of Sydney Bristow( Thanks J.J.!) This is a great book and a must add to your ALIAS collection

Great Book.......2002-08-06

I loved this book, it had all the answers to my questions about Alias and its cast. I would definitly reccomend this book to some of my friends.

Big Disappointment.......2002-07-06

I'm absolutely obsessed with Alias so as soon as I saw this book I thought I had to have it. So I bought it and to my dismay, it was nothing like I was hoping it would be. They really didn't go all that in depth into her life - they just skimmed the surface.

And what made me SO angry was how many typos and grammatical errors there were! They were all over the place! On the very first page they spelled Sydney wrong - they spelled it Sidney (and this was done many more times too)! They didn't use appropriate punctuation and sometimes had sentence fragments. They spelled Michael Vartan's (Alias cast member) role in Never Been Kissed wrong, etc. Also one mistake they made that really riled me was that in a caption of an Alias cast photo they only named a few of the people, AND they got their names wrong too! They called Bradley Cooper Kevin Weisman and they didn't even mention Greg Grunberg who was also in the photo!

The quality of it was extremely low and I was convinced that a child had written it. I guess if you are looking for some basic facts about Jennifer it's okay, but I'm sure there are MUCH better books out there. Don't waste your money on this one.

i totally have to get this book!.......2002-05-22

okay...well im sooooo in love with alias. so this will be like a must have book! i was surfing the web for new sites on alias or jennifer garner and this popped up! i HAVE to get this book!
128 pages of pure jennifer garner fun! so when does it come out?
why doesnt this site say? well i totally have to get it! im so exited! this is going to be my official favorite book ever! in the history of the world! i just hope there will be more in the near futuer! YESZ!

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The Earl of Essex was the last great favorite of Elizabeth I and the leading cultural patron of the final years of her reign. Dazzled by the "romantic" relationship with the queen, modern writers have branded Essex a dandy, a military incompetent, and a political dabbler, and have blamed him for the bitter factionalism that plagued English politics in the 1590s. Using an unparalleled range of manuscript and printed sources, this book presents a very different image of Essex and of the outbreak of factionalism in Elizabethan politics.

The Polarisation of Elizabethan Politics: The Political Career of Robert Devereux, 2Nd Earl of Essex, 1585-1597.(Review): An article from: Shakespeare Studies

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The Polarisation of Elizabethan Politics: The Political Career of Robert Devereux, 2Nd Earl of Essex, 1585-1597.(Review): An article from: Shakespeare Studies
Pauline Croft
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Title: The Polarisation of Elizabethan Politics: The Political Career of Robert Devereux, 2Nd Earl of Essex, 1585-1597.(Review)
Author: Pauline Croft
Publication: Shakespeare Studies (Refereed)
Date: January 1, 2001
Publisher: Associated University Presses
Page: 223(4)

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The World of the Favourite. New Haven and London: Yale University Press.(Review): An article from: Renaissance Quarterly
Stanford Lehmberg
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This digital document is an article from Renaissance Quarterly, published by Renaissance Society of America on June 22, 2000. The length of the article is 1225 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: The World of the Favourite. New Haven and London: Yale University Press.(Review)
Author: Stanford Lehmberg
Publication: Renaissance Quarterly (Refereed)
Date: June 22, 2000
Publisher: Renaissance Society of America
Volume: 53 Issue: 2 Page: 606

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