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Economists’ Preferences and the Preferences of Economists

Environmental Values, 1994
Economists, who adopt the principle of consumer sovereignty, treat preferences as unquestioned for the purposes of their analysis. They also represent preferences for future outcomes as having value in the present. It is shown that these two characteristics of neoclassical modelling rest on similar reasoning and are essential to achieve high ...
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Preference and Preference Structure

2021
This chapter presents the formal aspects of decision making and introduce a set-theoretic representation of preferences to give a formal definition of the best decisions. In this chapter, we first present a conceptual framework for the phenomenon of decision making, and then use set theory to provide a more rigorous discussion.
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Values and preferences: defining preference construction

WIREs Cognitive Science, 2010
AbstractExtensive research in the values and preferences literature suggests that preferences are sensitive to context and calculated at the time of choice. This has led to the view that preferences are constructed. Recent work calls for a better understanding of when preferences are constructed and when they are not. We contend that the answer to this
WARREN, CALEB, A. P. McGraw, L. Van Boven   +2 more
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Hand Preference, Sexual Preference, and Transsexualism

Archives of Sexual Behavior, 2001
Atypical handedness patterns, i.e., persons being less exclusively right-handed, have been found previously in large samples of male and female homosexuals and in small samples of male and female transsexuals compared to controls. The posited role of prenatal androgen influencing both cerebral hemispheric dominance and psychosexual development warrants
R, Green, R, Young
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A Preference for Selfish Preferences

Philosophy of the Social Sciences, 2008
This article analyzes the problem of preference imputation in rational choice political science. I argue against the well-established practice in political science of assuming selfish preferences for purely methodological reasons, regardless of its empirical plausibility (this I call a preference for selfish preferences).
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Mining the Preference Relations and Preference Graphs

2001
When knowledge mining starts from contingency tables, many types of knowledge become apparent that would otherwise went unnoticed. In this paper we start from contingency tables for pairs of attributes whose domains are ordered. The domain of each attribute can be interpreted as a preference list.
Jan M. Zytkow, Daniel Arredondo
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Preferences and preference functions

2003
Chapter 2 treats totally ordered sets and gives representation theorems. Similar theorems for just relations — not assumed to be total — are trivial, but are convenient to have, because the main results in this book give conditions for particular additive representation.
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Maintaining Preference Networks That Adapt to Changing Preferences

2013
Decision making can be more difficult with an enormous amount of information, not only for humans but also for automated decision making processes. Although most user preference elicitation models have been developed based on the assumption that user preferences are stable, user preferences may change in the long term and may evolve with experience ...
Lee, Ki Hyang, Buffett, Scott, Fleming, Michael W.   +2 more
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Preferences for redistribution

Journal of Economic Surveys, 2023
Friederike Mengel
exaly  

Time Preference

International Economic Review, 1982
Fishburn, Peter C, Rubinstein, Ariel
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