Rex V. Brown

The Art and Science of Making Up Your Mind (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Baron, Jonathan; Brown, Karen

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The Art and Science of Making Up Your Mind presents basic decision-making principles and tools to help the reader respond efficiently and wisely to everyday dilemmas.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 116
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Juni 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000024579
• Artikelnr.: 56982456

Autorenporträt

Rex V. Brown's 50-year career combined research, consulting and teaching on helping people and organizations to make better decisions. He wrote five previous books on decision science and more than 80 papers and articles. Brown was a Distinguished Senior Fellow in the School of Public Policy at George Mason University. He held faculty appointments at Harvard Business School, University College London, London School of Economics and the Universities of Michigan, Carnegie-Mellon, George Mason and Cambridge. He spent 20 years as Chairman of Decision Science Consortium, Inc. in Reston, Virginia, and was a founding Council Member of the Decision Analysis Society.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1
Introduction Chapter 2
Decision making Chapter 3
Term project: Evaluating a policy proposal Chapter 4
Qualitative decision aids Chapter 5
Hip surgery case Chapter 6
Quantitative ADT modeling Chapter 7
Family case study: C
section vs. "natural" child
birth? Chapter 8
Using ADT models Chapter 9
A civic case: Voting for president Chapter 10
Information value case: Life
saving diagnosis Chapter 11
Expanded view: Should we teach decision making in school? Chapter 12
Epilogue
What next? Bibliography Index