Preference, Value, Choice, and Welfare

Preference, Value, Choice, and Welfare
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 169
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ISBN-10 : 9781139505376
ISBN-13 : 1139505378
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Book Synopsis Preference, Value, Choice, and Welfare by : Daniel M. Hausman

Download or read book Preference, Value, Choice, and Welfare written by Daniel M. Hausman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-12-12 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 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.


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