Economics Without Preferences : Microeconomics and Policymaking Beyond the Maximizing Individual (Record no. 756975)
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| fixed length control field | 02019nam a2200205 4500 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| ISBN | 9781009340700 |
| 041 ## - LANGUAGE CODE | |
| Language code of text/sound track or separate title | English |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 338.5 |
| Item number | MAN/E |
| 084 ## - OTHER CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Source of Number | Colon Classification |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME | |
| Personal name | Mandler, Michael |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Economics Without Preferences : Microeconomics and Policymaking Beyond the Maximizing Individual |
| 250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT | |
| Edition statement | 1 |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication | UK: |
| Name of publisher | Cambridge University Press, |
| Year of publication | 2025. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | 245p. |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE | |
| General note | Economics without Preferences lays out a new microeconomics – a theory of choice behavior, markets, and welfare – for agents who lack the preferences and marginal judgments that economics normally relies on. Agents without preferences defy the rules of the traditional model of rational choice but they can still systematically pursue their interests. The theory that results resolves several puzzles in economics. Status quo bias and other anomalies of behavioral economics shield agents from harm; they are expressions rather than violations of rationality. Parts of economic orthodoxy go out the window. Agents will fail to make the fine-grained trade-offs ingrained in conventional economics, leading market prices to be volatile and cost-benefit analysis to break down. This book provides policy alternatives to fill this void. Governments can spur innovation, the main benefit markets can deliver, while sheltering agents from the upheavals that accompany economic change. |
| 505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | Preface<br/>1. Marginal utility matters<br/>Part I. Trade-Offs and Rationality:<br/>2. Utility as an ordering principle<br/>3. Incomplete preferences<br/>4. The rationality of choice<br/>5. Safety bias<br/>6. The myth of indifference<br/>part II. Economic Analysis and Policy Without Preferences:<br/>7. The volatility of prices<br/>8. Trouble with welfare economics<br/>9. Pareto without preferences<br/>10. Utilitarianism without utility<br/>11. Production and rationality<br/>12. Custom and flexibility<br/>Appendix. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Micro Economic Policy |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Source of classification or shelving scheme | Dewey Decimal Classification |
| Koha item type | Book |
| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Source of classification or shelving scheme | Damaged status | Not for loan | Collection code | Home Library | Current Location | Shelving location | Date acquired | Source of acquisition | Cost, normal purchase price | Full call number | Accession Number | Price effective from | Koha item type |
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| Dewey Decimal Classification | Reference | Dept. of Economics | Dept. of Economics | Processing Center | 23/02/2026 | MBC/0763/2025,13/02/2026 | 11726.00 | 338.5 MAN/E | ECN16987 | 23/02/2026 | Book |