NEW APPROACH TO CONSUMER THEORY
NEW APPROACH TO CONSUMER THEORY
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DOI：
10.1086/259131
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发表时间：
1966-01-01
影响因子：
8.2
通讯作者：
LANCASTER, KJ
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作者：
LANCASTER, KJ
德布鲁(1959,1960)或尤泽瓦(1960)等人提出的确定性情形下的消费者行为理论是一种极具美学美感的东西，是镶嵌在玻璃箱中的一颗宝石。这是从19世纪的效用理论家、斯拉茨基和希克斯-艾伦到过去25年的经济学家们长期精炼过程的产物，1它已经去掉了所有不相关的假设，因此它现在是如何从最低限度的假设中提取最低限度的结果的一个例子。在用奥卡姆的剃刀切掉的过程中，作者做出了一点贡献(1957年)。这引发了约翰逊(1958)的回答，他开玩笑地提出，替代效应标志的确定性(消费者行为理论的唯一实质性结果)可以从商品就是商品的命题中推导出来。经过深思，约翰逊的评论似乎是对当前形势的最好总结
TIHE theory of consumer behavior in deterministic situations as set out by, say, Debreu (1959, 1960) or Uzawa (1960) is a thing of great aesthetic beauty, a jewel set in a glass case. The product of a long process of refinement from the nineteenth-century utility theorists through Slutsky and Hicks-Allen to the economists of the last twenty-five years, 1 it has been shorn of all irrelevant postulates so that it now stands as an example of how to extract the minimum of results from the minimum of assumptions.To the process of slicing away with Occam's razor, the author made a small contribution (I 957). This brought forth a reply by Johnson (1958) which suggested, somewhat tongue-in-cheek, that the determinateness of the sign of the substitution effect (the only substantive result of the theory of consumer behavior) could be derived from the proposition that goods are goods. Johnson's comment, on reflection, would seem to be almost the best summary that can be given of the current