Hausman, Daniel M. creator author. text enk 2011 monographic eng

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1 online resource (168 pages) : digital, PDF file(s). 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. Daniel M. Hausman. Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Oct 2015). Consumers' preferences Preferences (Philosophy) Value Rational choice theory HF5415.32 .H38 2012 658.8/343 9781139058537 (ebook) http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139058537 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139058537 UkCbUP 110316 20180107143416.0 CR9781139058537