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Choice procedures and rational selections

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This paper is about the axiomatization of various transitive rationalizations in termsof a selection process. For the selection to be routewise invariant, we present the choiceprocedures or algorithms that would guarantee rational choice.

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Bandyopadhyay, T. Choice procedures and rational selections. Annals of Operations Research 80, 49–66 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1018932402253

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