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Risky Curves: On the empirical failure of expected utility theory, Daniel Friedman , R. Mark Isaac , Duncan James and Shyam Sunder . Routledge, 2014, xiii + 137 pages.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 October 2016

Catherine C. Eckel
Catherine C. Eckel*
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Department of Economics, Texas A&M University, TAMU 4228, College Station, TX 77843-4228. Email: [email protected]. URL: https://sites.google.com/site/eckelcatherine/.
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Economics & Philosophy , Volume 32 , Issue 3 , November 2016 , pp. 540 - 548
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