Elicitation of preferences /
"Economists and psychologists have, on the whole, exhibited sharply different perspectives on the elicitation of preferences. Economists, who have made preference the central primitive in their thinking about human behavior, have for the most part rejected elicitation and have instead sought to...
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| Language: | English |
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Kluwer Academic Publishers,
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| Summary: | "Economists and psychologists have, on the whole, exhibited sharply different perspectives on the elicitation of preferences. Economists, who have made preference the central primitive in their thinking about human behavior, have for the most part rejected elicitation and have instead sought to infer preferences from observations of choice behavior. Psychologists, who have tended too think of preference as a context-determined subjective construct, have embraced elicitation as their dominant approach to measurement." "This volume, based on a symposium organized by Daniel McFadden at the University of California at Berkeley, provides a provocative and constructive engagement between economists and psychologists on the elicitation of preferences."--Jacket. |
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| Item Description: | "A special issue of Journal of risk and uncertainty, volume 19, nos. 1-3 (1999)." Revised papers presented at a summer 1997 symposium organized at the University of California, Berkeley, by Daniel McFadden, and with commentaries added by invited psychologists and economists. |
| Physical Description: | 275 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 0792377435 (alk. paper) |