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1University of Missouri-Columbia, 438 Strickland Hall, Columbia, MO 65201, USA.
Abstract:
The question of how to frame agential preferences in economics finds one caught between Scylla and Charybdis. If preferences are framed in as minimal and deflationary a manner as revealed preference theory recommends, the theory falls prey to objections about its predictiveness and explanatory power. Alternatively, if too many cognitive and causal intricacies are incorporated into the preference concept, revealed preference models will violate pragmatic norms of model construction, surrendering model simplicity and generality. This paper charts a middle course, arguing that the path to salvation lies through an understanding of revealed preference models as program explanations.
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