Freedom and Adaptive Preferences.

Traditional welfare economics works with the assumption of the fully rational economic agent (homo economicus) whose preferences are fixed. To the contrary, this book presents a theory of welfare economics that maintains the principles of normative individualism while allowing for adaptive or change...

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Main Author: von Weizsäcker, Carl Christian.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 2024.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:The Graz Schumpeter Lectures
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505 0 |a Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- About the Author -- List of Figures -- Preface -- Book I Introduction: The Concept of "Preferences -- 1 Normative Individualism -- 2 "Preferences" in Positive and in "Normative" Economics -- 3 "Compossibility" of Freedom Rights -- 4 Preference Systems: The Comparability Problem -- 5 Overview of the Following Books II to VI -- Book II The Classroom Model of Adaptive Preferences -- 6 Introduction and Definitions -- 7 Improvement Sequences -- 8 Theorem 1 for the Classroom Model -- 9 Prices and Quantities: A Simple Example -- 10 The "Meaning" of the Long-Run Demand Function: Theorem 2A -- 11 Kaldor-Hicks-Scitovsky With Adaptive Preferences -- 12 Social Welfare Function With Adaptive Preferences -- Book III The Real-World Model (Continuous Time Model) -- 13 Introduction, Theorem 1B for n ≥ 2 -- 14 Theorem 2B for n &gt -- 2 -- 15 Equivalence Theorem 1 (Theorem 1C) -- 16 Theorem 2 for the Continuous Time Model (Real-World Model) -- 17 Theorem 1 for the Real-World Model -- Book IV Freedom and the Phenomenology of Adaptive Preferences -- 18 Freedom and Compossibility -- 19 Phenomenology of Adaptive Preferences and Pragmatic Compossibility -- 20 Phenomenology of Adaptive Preferences: Intertemporal Complementarity -- 21 Digging Deeper Into Adaptive Preferences -- Book V Interpersonal Influences on Preferences -- 22 Adaptive Preferences as a Result of Evolution -- 23 Non-Convexity of Preferences: Phishing for Phools -- 24 Freedom Mode and Causal Mode of Government Action -- 25 Imitation of Others: A Case of Adaptive Preferences -- Advertising -- 26 Complexity, Private Property, Democracy, Public Goods -- 27 Two Generalized Media of Exchange: Karl Popper vs Erich Fromm -- 28 Three Levels of Economic Activity: Externalities -- 29 Social Market Economy. 
505 8 |a Book VI Partial Equlibrium Welfare Economics for a Free Society With Adaptive Preferences -- 30 Introduction -- 31 Cost-Benefit Analysis With Adaptive Preferences, Part 1 -- 32 Cost-Benefit-Analysis With Adaptive Preferences, Part 2 -- 33 Pragmatics of Incomplete Compossibility -- 34 Private Anticipation of Preference Change: Innovation -- 35 Concluding Remarks -- References -- Annex for Book II -- Mathematical Annex to Book III -- Definitions, Axioms, Theorems -- Index. 
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