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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*
Affiliation:
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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