Preference, value, choice, and welfare / Daniel M Hausman

By:

Hausman, Daniel M

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012Description: xiv, 153p. 23cmISBN:

9781107015432

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DDC classification:

658.8343 HAU

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Book	Calcutta	658.8343 HAU (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		IIMC-136007

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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. Hausman argues, 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.

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