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It is then a contention of this reading that both aspects have had profound consequences for the reception and direction of subsequent work, and even the most perfunctory examination of these origins allows one to obtain both a systematic and comprehensive reading of the current literature, and also to highlight connections that go into shaping it. It is also the contention of this work that the history of the problematic is relevant to a successful resolution of the problematic itself, and that the line between exposition and research may have been overplayed in mainstream decision theory: Abdellaoui and Wakker (2020) and Hartmann (2020) have furnished embarrassing instances of this disregard. A successful theory must keep in the foreground the economic phenomenon to be explained; a successful generalization of a theorem needs orientation to the direction of the generalization and it cannot be oblivious of the history of the theorem.73 Cookies are used by this site. Cookie settings Al

It is then a contention of this reading that both aspects have had profound consequences for the reception and direction of subsequent work, and even the most perfunctory examination of these origins allows one to obtain both a systematic and comprehensive reading of the current literature, and also to highlight connections that go into shaping it. It is also the contention of this work that the history of the problematic is relevant to a successful resolution of the problematic itself, and that the line between exposition and research may have been overplayed in mainstream decision theory: Ab