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Introduction to Decision Theories

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Part of the Advances in Japanese Business and Economics book series (AJBE, volume 16)

Abstract

In this section, we provide a brief introduction to decision theory to understand our theoretical arguments on the social transformation in Part II.

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• Shinji Yamashige
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1. 1.School of International and Public PolicyHitotsubashi UniversityKunitachiJapan