Slate has a simple test of rationality, which is really the Allais Paradox. To understand the significance of the Allais Paradox, one has to go back to the Expected Utility Theory proposed by John von Neumann and Oskar Morgenstern in 1944. According to this theory, the expected utility of a gamble or a lottery with [...]
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