Showing posts with label welfare analysis. Show all posts
Showing posts with label welfare analysis. Show all posts

Monday, May 14, 2007

The New Formalism?

Bernheim and Rangel have a paper out in the current edition of the AER on choice-theoretic foundations for behavioural welfare economics. According to these authors, standard welfare analysis is based on choice, not on utility or preferences. And they have devised a new approach to welfare analysis where individuals make inconsistent choices.

See a version of the paper here.