Bruno de Finetti (1906-1985) is the founder of the subjective interpretation of probability, together with the British philosopher Frank Plumpton Ramsey. His related notion of "exchangeability" revolutionized the statistical methodology. This book (based on a course held in 1979) explains in a language accessible also to non-mathematicians the fundamental tenets and implications of subjectivism, according to which the probability of any well specified fact F refers to the degree of belief actually held by someone, on the ground of her whole knowledge, on the truth of the assertion that F obtains.

B.De Finetti: La probabilita e la statistica nei rapporti con linduzione, secondo i diversi punti di vista.- L.J. Savage: La probabilita soggettiva nei problemi pratici della statistica.- L. Daboni: Sulle catene di Markoff.- S. Lombardini: Decisoni economiche in condizioni di incertezza.- A. Longo: La R.O. (Ricerca Operativa)."

Bruno de Finetti (1906-1985) is the founder of the subjective interpretation of probability, together with the British philosopher Frank Plumpton Ramsey. His related notion of "exchangeability" revolutionized the statistical methodology. This book (based on a course held in 1979) explains in a language accessible also to non-mathematicians the fundamental tenets and implications of subjectivism, according to which the probability of any well specified fact F refers to the degree of belief actually held by someone, on the ground of her whole knowledge, on the truth of the assertion that F obtains.

Bruno de Finetti gehort zu den wichtigsten Vertretern der sogenannten subjektiven Wahrscheinlichkeitstheorie. Hier finden Sie die zusammenfassende Darstellung dieser Theorie auf ihrem neuesten Stand."

S.N. Afriat: Economic transformation.- M. Arcelli: Modelli aumentati e principio di corrispondenza nella metodologia di Andreas.- H. Kuhn: Some remarks on games of fair division.- H. Kuhn: On two theorems in international trade.- A.G. Papandreou: Theory, construction and empirical meaning in economics.

Preface by B. de Finetti.- G.Th. Guilbaud: Les equilibres dans les modeles economiques.-H.W. Kuhn: Locational problems and mathematical programming.- M. Morishima: The multi-sectoral theory of economic growth.- B. Martos, J. Kornai: Experiments in Hungary with industry-wide and economy wide programming.- A. Prekopa: Probability distribution problems concerning stochastic programming problems.- R. Frisch: General principles and mathematical techniques of macroeconomic programming.