{"product_id":"freedom-and-adaptive-preferences-9781032726601","title":"Freedom and Adaptive Preferences","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eTraditional welfare economics works with the assumption of the fully rational economic agent (homo economicus) whose preferences are fixed: that is, they are not influenced by their economic environment. To the contrary, this book presents a theory of welfare economics that maintains the principles of normative individualism while allowing for adaptive or changeable preferences.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhy do economists talk of preferences? In this book, Carl Christian von Weizsäcker shows that the concept is intimately related to freedom of action. The concept of preferences is the mode by which normative economics introduces the idea of freedom or liberty into its theory of human interaction. Moreover, the economic research of recent decades has provided a large amount of experimental and other empirical findings  e.g. the work on bounded rationality  which contradicts the assumption of fixed preferences. This book argues that this large body of findings is consistent with the hypothesis of adaptiv\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51019171922263,"sku":"9781032726601","price":38.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781032726601.jpg?v=1750779538","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/freedom-and-adaptive-preferences-9781032726601","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}