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Economics without Preferences

Microeconomics and Policymaking Beyond the Maximizing Individual

Av Michael Mandler

2049 kr

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Economics without Preferences lays out a new microeconomics – a theory of choice behavior, markets, and welfare – for agents who lack the preferences and marginal judgments that economics normally relies on. Agents without preferences defy the rules of the traditional model of rational choice but they can still systematically pursue their interests. The theory that results resolves several puzzles in economics. Status quo bias and other anomalies of behavioral economics shield agents from harm; they are expressions rather than violations of rationality. Parts of economic orthodoxy go out the window. Agents will fail to make the fine-grained trade-offs ingrained in conventional economics, leading market prices to be volatile and cost-benefit analysis to break down. This book provides policy alternatives to fill this void. Governments can spur innovation, the main benefit markets can deliver, while sheltering agents from the upheavals that accompany economic change.
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Michael Mandler is a Professor of Economics at Royal Holloway College, University of London. He is an economic theorist who has taught at the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard University and is the author of Dilemmas in Economic Theory (1999).

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'Michael Mandler is one of the most brilliant and unorthodox minds in social science and Economics without Preferences is his masterwork. Mandler's fascinating reformulation of economic theory via the relaxation of conventional notions of rationality is pathbreaking. This book demonstrates that the empirical limitations of neoclassical theory can be constructively and compellingly addressed to produce a richer and more powerful formal framework for understanding individual and collective behavior. Every economist should study this wonderful book.' Steven Durlauf, Director, Stone Center for Research on Wealth Inequality and Mobility, Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago

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