Utilitarianism and economic behavior : looking for benthamite traces
In spite of the use of a utilitarian language in Rational Choice Theory, economists do not acknowledge any link to this current of moral philosophy, and have made great efforts to rid economics from its legacy. In this document we aim at assessing these efforts retracing their history from Pareto to...
- Autores:
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Hurtado Prieto, Jimena
Mick Clausen, Johanna
- Tipo de recurso:
- Work document
- Fecha de publicación:
- 2011
- Institución:
- Universidad de los Andes
- Repositorio:
- Séneca: repositorio Uniandes
- Idioma:
- eng
- OAI Identifier:
- oai:repositorio.uniandes.edu.co:1992/8284
- Acceso en línea:
- http://hdl.handle.net/1992/8284
- Palabra clave:
- Utilitarianism
Rational choice theory
Axiom of revealed preferences
Bentham, Jeremy - 1748-1832 - Crítica e interpretación
Utilitarismo - Aspectos económicos
Teoría económica
B12, B21, B31
- Rights
- openAccess
- License
- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
| Summary: | In spite of the use of a utilitarian language in Rational Choice Theory, economists do not acknowledge any link to this current of moral philosophy, and have made great efforts to rid economics from its legacy. In this document we aim at assessing these efforts retracing their history from Pareto to Samuelson in order to determine how close they came to their ideal of formulating a positive science rid of what they called any metaphysical traces. |
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