《Preference, Value, Choice, and Welfare》是Daniel M. Hausman所著的圖書，2011年12月出版，2012年由劍橋大學出版社發行，ISBN為9781107015432，共168頁，定價750.00元。
該書聚焦經濟學中的偏好問題，涵蓋日常語言使用、心理學解釋及哲學反思三個維度。作者在辯護偏好解釋行為有效性的同時，指出其理論需完善發展，並批判將福利簡化為偏好或選擇的觀點。書中整合理性選擇理論與哲學的行動解釋框架，涉及偏好形成模型的構建及情感因素的塑造作用，並援引歷史學者對“世俗化”概念的分析案例。學界認為該書直指經濟學過度依賴數學工具導致的表述困境。
基本介紹
- 外文名：Preference, Value, Choice, and Welfare
- 作者：Hausman, Daniel M.
- 出版時間：2011年12月
- 頁數：168 頁
- ISBN：9781107015432
- 定價：750.00 元
內容簡介
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.
