Rational behaviour, Risk aversion, High stakes for society

André de Palma (1, 2)

1 X-DEP-ECO - Département d'Économie de l'École Polytechnique
2 ENS Cachan - École normale supérieure - Cachan

Certain areas related to the topics under discussion here lie outside my field; for instance the evaluation of risk assessment and security deficiencies in the transport sector. What has convinced me of the importance of this subject are a few very general conclusions, indeed I would say, impressions, that I have drawn from the truly remarkable development of our powers to analyse the risk decision-making process over some years now.

Mots clés: Risk; uncertainty; home security; expected utility; non-expected utility; OECD

Domaines: Gestion et management; Economies et finances

André de Palma. Rational behaviour, Risk aversion, High stakes for society. 2008. ⟨hal-00349462⟩