Hidden Bibliographic Details
| ISBN: | 9781139218238
1139218239
9781139058537
1139058533
9781139221320
1139221329
9786613598479
661359847X
1280568879
9781280568879
9781107015432
110701543X
9781107695122
1107695120
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| Digital file characteristics: | data file
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 139-148) and index.
Print version record.
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| Summary: | "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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| Other form: | Print version: Hausman, Daniel M., 1947- Preference, value, choice, and welfare. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012 9781107015432
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