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The Making of Decision Theory

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An unprecedented era in the development of decision theory occurred from the late 1940s to the early 1950s and culminated with an extraordinary number of important publications in 1954. This paper traces the background for this coming-of-age era through Ward Edwards’ 1954 review article, outlines other contributions of that year, accounts for the era’s creative surge, and sketches its effects on succeeding decades.

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Fishburn, P.C. (1999). The Making of Decision Theory. In: Shanteau, J., Mellers, B.A., Schum, D.A. (eds) Decision Science and Technology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-5089-1_20

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