Weber's Law and the Biological Evolution of Risk Preferences: The Selective Dominance of the Logarithmic Utility Function, 2002 Geneva Risk Lecture

Hans-Werner Sinn

The Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance Theory 28, 2003, pp. 87-100, CESifo Working Paper No. 770, September 2002.

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