Don't fool yourself to believe you won't fool yourself again

Uzi Segal

doi:10.1016/s0165-1765(99)00251-7

Don't fool yourself to believe you won't fool yourself again

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Abstract

A possible solution to the absent minded driver problem is that the decision maker optimizes taking into account the utility he will actually have in the future, and not the utility level he should have.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1-3
Number of pages	3
Journal	Economics Letters
Volume	67
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/s0165-1765(99)00251-7
State	Published - Apr 2000
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

C7
D0
Imperfect recall
Recursive utility

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