Rational Preference and Evaluation
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educated at Harvard University and New York University, and received his PhD from Columbia University in 1978. His research has centered on epistemological, metaphysical, and ethical issues lying at the boundaries between economics and philosophy. He is the co-founder and former co-editor of the journal Economics and Philosophy. His most important books are The Inexact and Separate Science of Economics (1992) and Economic Analysis, Moral Philosophy, and Public Policy (2006, with Michael McPherson). He is currently writing a book on preferences.
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