Stikkord
preferanser
Et potensielt problem med ordinale preferanser
When it was conclusively shown that large segments of economic thought could be maintained by postulating merely an ordinal preference pattern – an ordering – for alternatives without including an underpinning of latent «utiles,» the utility notion was not worth philosophizing about. Still one may contend that introducing numbers does no harm, that they summarize…
Eksotiske preferanser (og akademia)
[T]he standard assumption in economics is that people care more about the present than the future, which implies that they should put off unpleasant tasks and overindulge their immediate appetites. […] But the preferences that conventional economists view as exotic shed light on important aspects of what is actually very ordinary behavior. It is, after…