Foundations of Utility and Risk Theory with Applications formatIsbn:Hardcover 9789027712394 The IEEE Spectrum magazine New FACG The IEEE Spectrum magazine New Year issue of 2004 cited this area as one whose development and progress should be observed closely over the coming years Efforts to describe and model the molecular structure of biological membranes go back to the beginning of the last century With that purpose in mind we have selected a mixture of applied and theoretical papers that we hope will appeal to a wide spectrum o~ readers ~rom graduate students in social science departments and business schools to people involved in making hardheaded decisions in business and government In this volume we present some o~ the papers that were delivered at FUR 82 the First International Con~erence on Foundations o~ Utility and Risk Theory in Oslo