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020 _a9781139058537 (ebook)
020 _z9781107015432 (hardback)
020 _z9781107695122 (paperback)
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050 0 0 _aHF5415.32
_b.H38 2012
082 0 0 _a658.8/343
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100 1 _aHausman, Daniel M.,
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aPreference, Value, Choice, and Welfare / [electronic resource]
_cDaniel M. Hausman.
246 3 _aPreference, Value, Choice, & Welfare
264 1 _aCambridge :
_bCambridge University Press,
_c2011.
300 _a1 online resource (168 pages) :
_bdigital, PDF file(s).
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
500 _aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Oct 2015).
520 _aThis book is about preferences, principally as they figure in economics. It also explores their uses in everyday language and action, how they are understood in psychology and how they figure in philosophical reflection on action and morality. The book clarifies and for the most part defends the way in which economists invoke preferences to explain, predict and assess behavior and outcomes. Hausman argues, however, that the predictions and explanations economists offer rely on theories of preference formation that are in need of further development, and he criticizes attempts to define welfare in terms of preferences and to define preferences in terms of choices or self-interest. The analysis clarifies the relations between rational choice theory and philosophical accounts of human action. The book also assembles the materials out of which models of preference formation and modification can be constructed, and it comments on how reason and emotion shape preferences.
650 0 _aConsumers' preferences
650 0 _aPreferences (Philosophy)
650 0 _aValue
650 0 _aRational choice theory
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_z9781107015432
856 4 0 _uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139058537
_zCambridge Books Online
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