'On the Econ within': a reply to Daniel Hausman. Issue 1 (2nd January 2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Infante, Gerardo; Lecouteux, Guilhem; Sugden, Robert
• Is Part Of: Journal of economic methodology. Volume 23:Issue 1(2016)
• Page Start: 33
• Page End: 37
• Publication Date: 2016-01-02
• Subjects: preference purification -- inner rational agent -- behavioural welfare economics; Economics -- Methodology -- Periodicals; 330.072
• DOI: 10.1080/1350178X.2015.1070526
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1350-178X

Abstract

Abstract: This note replies to a comment by Daniel Hausman on our paper 'Preference purification and the inner rational agent: a critique of the conventional wisdom of behavioural welfare economics'. We clarify our characterisation of behavioural welfare economics and acknowledge that Hausman does fully endorse this approach. However, we argue that Hausman's response to our critique, like behavioural welfare economics itself, implicitly uses a model of an inner rational agent.