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Big strides have been made in the research of social preferences. But economists should drop both the idea that a person’s preferences represent a complete and transitive ordering and that conflicting preferences must belong to two different types of people. The really interesting question then is: if this is wrong, what is right?
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Lindenberg, S. (2017). The Motivated Armchair Approach to Preferences. In: Frey, B., Iselin, D. (eds) Economic Ideas You Should Forget. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47458-8_38
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