Decision Making: Its Logic and Practice
- ISBN-10
- 0847676307
- ISBN-13
- 9780847676309
- Series
- Decision Making
- Pages
- 272
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1990-01
- Authors
- John D. Mullen, Byron M. Roth
Description
This text, written by a philosopher & a social psychologist, emphasizes concrete applications of decision research to problems of everyday living, as well as to business, social & political issues. The text contains scores of interesting examples & problems for analysis, ranging from personal decisions about medical treatment to Truman's decision to use the atomic bomb. There is no other text with such a wide-ranging coverage, with so practical an orientation, with such clear descriptions of the steps to effective decision making & with so many end-of-chapter problems for analysis & practice.
