Taking unconsidered preferences seriously
Taking unconsidered preferences seriously
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认真对待未考虑的偏好
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2006
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R. Sugden
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R. Sugden
在规范经济学分析中，人们习惯于把每个人的偏好作为他自己的价值标准，并作为评价公共政策对他的影响的标准。以这种方式对待偏好的建议通常受到两个明显的自然条件的限制偏好是内部一致的，并且它们反映了有关人员经过深思熟虑的判断。然而，现在有大量证据表明，在许多经济环境中，所需的那种偏好根本不存在。似乎支配人们实际行为的偏好往往是不连贯和不稳定的。这就引出了下面的问题：是否存在一种可辩护的规范经济学形式，它尊重每个人的实际偏好，无论它们采取何种形式？我将试图证明有。
In normative economic analysis, it is conventional to treat each person’s preferences as that person’s own standard of value, and as the standard by which the effects of public policies on that person should be valued. The proposal that preferences should be treated in this way is usually qualified by two apparently natural conditions—that preferences are internally coherent, and that they reflect the considered judgements of the person concerned. However, there is now a great deal of evidence suggesting that, in many economic environments, preferences of the required kind simply do not exist. It seems that the preferences that govern people’s actual behaviour are often incoherent and unstable. This prompts the following question: Is there a defensible form of normative economics which respects each individual’s actual preferences, whatever form they take? I shall try to show that there is.