Econ 3810/Econ 6760/ CS 5846:
Course Notes
- Final notes on the course overview
- Prof. Blume's notes on basic
choice theory
- Prof. Blume's notes on ordinal representations
- Prof. Halpern's notes on uncertain
propspects and decision rules
(updated: 3/1/2021)
- John Milnor's paper on various decision rules
- The
Baeza-Yates, Culberson, Rawlins papers that shows that 9 is the
optimal competitive ratio of finding a point on a line
- More on
weighted expected regret
- More on
applying ideas of decision theory to database
query optimization
- Professor Blume's notes on expected utility
- Professor Blume's notes on probability
- Professor Halpern's notes on choosing the
protocol, causality, and Bayesian networks (updated 3/31 to
correct numerous typos)
- An invited
lecture given by Prof. Halpern on causality. It's a summary of
this
book. Prof. Halpern can point you to lots of papers if you're
interested.
on causality.
- Professor Halpern's notes on problems with
maximizing expected utility (updated on 4/12/21 to incorporate
new material on independence).
- Prof. Halpern's presentation on his joint
work with Prof. Blume and Prof. Easley (slides updates with new
material: 4/19/21; another slight update on 4/21/21).
- Here is the paper that the slides
are based on, in case you want more details.
- some slides on Andrea Wilson's work
on modeling human behavior using finite automata.
- Here
is the Freakonomics episode (for those who don't know. (The link
actually gives the transcript of the episode as well as the audio,
so you can either read it or listen to it.)
Freakonomics is a podcast) that discusses QALY's.
- Here is the talk on moral
responsibility that I was going to give today, but didn't.
- Professor Blume's notes on social choice theory
- Here is the final from 2017. But be aware that all the material on ethics and social choice wasn't covered then, while other material was covered in somewhat more detail (although, in fact, you should be able to do all the questions on the exam). Solutions are posted on CMS.x