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    Von Neumann-Morgenstern expected utility theory lacked a rigorous treatment of subjective probabilities

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    In all of our examples and workings to this point, we have presupposed that players’ beliefs about probabilities in lotteries match objective probabilities. But in real interactive choice situations, agents must often rely on their subjective estimations or perceptions of probabilities. In one of the greatest contributions to twentieth-century behavioral and social science, Savage (1954) showed how to incorporate subjective probabilities, and their relationships to preferences over risk, withi

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