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In psychology, economics and philosophy, preference is a technical term usually used in relation to choosing between alternatives.
In economics, and in other social sciences, preference refers to an order by which an agent, while in search of an "optimal choice", ranks alternatives ...
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Preference is a term used in scientific literature. Preference may also refer to: Preference (economics), as the term is used in economics; Preferans, ...
Revealed preference theory, pioneered by economist Paul Anthony Samuelson in 1938, is a method of analyzing choices made by individuals, mostly used for ...
In economics, time preference is the current relative valuation placed on receiving a good or some cash at an earlier date compared with receiving it at a ...
The term preference relation is used to refer to orderings that describe human preferences for one thing over an other. In mathematics, preferences may be ...
In economics, lexicographic preferences or lexicographic orderings describe comparative preferences where an agent prefers any amount of one good (X) to any ...
In economics, convex preferences are an individual's ordering of various outcomes, typically with regard to the amounts of various goods consumed, with the ...
Social preferences are studied extensively in behavioral and experimental economics and social psychology. Types of social preferences include altruism, ...
Economics is a social science that studies the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. Economics focuses on the behaviour and ...