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1. From Economics of Space and Time to the Foundations of Probability. My book (Faden, 1977, abbreviated EST) scarcely mentions probability, and yet in retrospect there is a clear path from EST to the present essay. Let me begin, then, by tracing this path.
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Faden, A.M. (1984). The Foundations of Probability. In: Hauptmann, H., Krelle, W., Mosler, K.C. (eds) Operations Research and Economic Theory. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-69909-2_15
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