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This paper explains some of the ideas behind the new intersubjectivist economics, offers a comparative analysis of the neoclassical and the intersubjectivist metaphysics of consumer desire, including their historical roots, and provides an extensive bibliography of the new school's key texts.
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The author would like to thank Thierry Levy and Manuel Garcia for their useful comments following the presentation of a draft of this paper at the International Atlantic Economic Conference in Paris, March 1996.
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Fullbrook, E. The metaphysics of consumer desire and the French intersubjectivists. International Advances in Economic Research 2, 287–294 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02295256
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