Beyond Revealed Preference: Choice-Theoretic Foundations for Behavioral Welfare Economics*

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DOI10.1162/qjec.2009.124.1.51zbMath1182.91070MaRDI QIDQ5850899

B. Douglas Bernheim, Antonio Rangel

Publication date: 20 January 2010

Published in: Quarterly Journal of Economics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: http://www.nber.org/papers/w13737.pdf


91B06: Decision theory

91B08: Individual preferences

91B15: Welfare economics


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