02247nam a22003618a 4500001001600000003000700016005001700023006001900040007001500059008004100074020002600115020002900141020003000170040002400200050002600224082001800250100003300268245008700301246004100388264005200429300005900481336002600540337002600566338003600592500007300628520098500701650002701686650002901713650001001742650002701752776003501779856007101814CR9781139058537UkCbUP20180107143416.0m|||||o||d||||||||cr||||||||||||110316s2011||||enk     s     ||1 0|eng|d  a9781139058537 (ebook)  z9781107015432 (hardback)  z9781107695122 (paperback)  aUkCbUPcUkCbUPerda00aHF5415.32 b.H38 201200a658.8/3432231 aHausman, Daniel M.,eauthor.10aPreference, Value, Choice, and Welfare / [electronic resource]cDaniel M. Hausman.3 aPreference, Value, Choice, & Welfare 1aCambridge :bCambridge University Press,c2011.  a1 online resource (168 pages) :bdigital, PDF file(s).  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Oct 2015).  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. 0aConsumers' preferences 0aPreferences (Philosophy) 0aValue 0aRational choice theory08iPrint version: z978110701543240uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139058537zCambridge Books Online