Money-Pump Arguments
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Part of Elements in Decision Theory and Philosophy
- Author: Johan E. Gustafsson, University of York
- Date Published: October 2022
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Suppose that you prefer A to B, B to C, and C to A. Your preferences violate Expected Utility Theory by being cyclic. Money-pump arguments offer a way to show that such violations are irrational. Suppose that you start with A. Then you should be willing to trade A for C and then C for B. But then, once you have B, you are offered a trade back to A for a small cost. Since you prefer A to B, you pay the small sum to trade from B to A. But now you have been turned into a money pump. You are back to the alternative you started with but with less money. This Element shows how each of the axioms of Expected Utility Theory can be defended by money-pump arguments of this kind. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
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- Date Published: October 2022
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781108718950
- length: 100 pages
- dimensions: 228 x 152 x 6 mm
- weight: 0.16kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
1. Money-pump arguments
2. Acyclicity
3. Completeness
4. Transitivity
5. Independence
6. Continuity
7. Against resolute choice
8. Against infinite money pumps.
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