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To decide is to choose from sets of alternatives. Decision theory is concerned with rationality in choice.
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Polemarchakis, H.M. (2018). Decision Theory. In: The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95189-5_180
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