Elicitation of Preferences

by Charles F. Manski and Baruch Fischhoff

Book Overview

Economists and psychologists have, on the whole, exhibited sharply different perspectives on the elicitation of preferences. Economists, who have made preference the central primitive in their thinking about human behavior, have for the most part rejected elicitation and have instead sought to infer preferences from observations of choice behavior. Psychologists, who have tended to think of preference as a context-determined subjective construct,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9048157765
• ISBN13: 9789048157761
• Release Date: December 2010
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 270 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"