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Society, 2016 In this brief response to Etzioni's paper we argue that satisfying one's preferences and seeking to live up to one's moral standards are not incompatible ways of living one's life, and that choosing to act morally need not involve self-sacrifice.
Bortolotti, Lisa, Jefferson, Anneli
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Preferred and non-preferred creditors [PDF]
Journal of International Economics, 2019 International financial institutions (IFIs) generally enjoy preferred creditors treatment (PCT). Although PCT rarely appears in legal contracts, when sovereigns restructure bilateral or commercial debts, they normally pay IFIs in full. This paper presents a model where a creditor, such as an IFI, that can commit to lend limited amounts at the risk-free
Cordella, Tito, Powell, Andrew
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Determining preference requires measuring preference [PDF]
Hormones and Behavior, 2008 Children’s preferences for gender-specific toys have spawned an industry of pink and blue aisles in toy stores and the difference in preference between boys and girls have been argued to show how behavioral gender differences arise from socialization.
Kim, Wallen, Janice M, Hassett
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Journal of Logic, Language and Information, 2015 Standard decision and game theory presuppose that in any model, the sets of all possible agents, states, actions, player-types and beliefs of agents are pre-defined, and that preferences can change only as a result of change in belief. However, the literature contains examples of decision problems that cannot be handled within these confines, and also ...
Cadilhac, Anaïs +3 more
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Journal of Economic Theory, 2020 We introduce and study the property of orthogonal independence, a restricted additivity axiom applying when alternatives are orthogonal. The axiom requires that the preference for one marginal change over another should be maintained after each marginal change has been shifted in a direction that is orthogonal to both.
Chambers, Christopher P. +1 more
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, 2023 In this article, I examine the problem of the ordering of preferences and the neutrality we should have with respect to their temporal location if we are to maintain a largely impartial position in ethical deliberation. I show how some difficulties may arise if we understand the ethical stance not only as a propensity towards impartiality, but also as ...
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Adaptive Preferences, Adapted Preferences [PDF]
Mind, 2018 People who have not experienced diseases and health conditions tend to judge them to be worse than they are reported to be by people who have experienced them. This phenomenon, known as the disability paradox, presents a challenge for health policy, and in particular, healthcare resource distribution.
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The Annals of Statistics, 1976 De Finetti has defined coherent previsions and coherent probabilities, and others have described concepts of coherent actions or coherent decisions. Here we consider a related concept of coherent preferences. Willingness to accept one side of a bet is an example of a preference.
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For most of its history, decision theory has investigated the rational choices of humans under the assumption of static preferences. Human preferences, however, change. In recent years, decision theory has increasingly acknowledged the reality of preference change throughout life.
Strohmaier, David, Messerli, Michael
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