Preferences and Positivist Methodology in Economics

Philosophy of Science 83 (2):192-212 (2016)
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Abstract

I distinguish several doctrines that economic methodologists have found attractive, all of which have a positivist flavour. One of these is the doctrine that preference assignments in economics are just shorthand descriptions of agents' choice behaviour. Although most of these doctrines are problematic, the latter doctrine about preference assignments is a respectable one, I argue. It doesn't entail any of the problematic doctrines, and indeed it is warranted independently of them.

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Christopher Clarke
Erasmus University Rotterdam

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