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CAN UNSTABLE PREFERENCES PROVIDE A STABLE STANDARD OF WELL-BEING?
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How do we determine the well-being of a person when her preferences are not stable across worlds? Suppose, for instance, that you are considering getting married, and that you know that if you get married, you will prefer being unmarried, and that if you stay unmarried, you will prefer being married. The general problem is to find a stable standard of well-being when the standard is set by preferences that are not stable. In this paper, I shall show that the problem is even worse: inconsisten...
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- Published
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- Journal:
- ECONOMICS AND PHILOSOPHY
- Volume:
- 26
- Issue:
- 1
- Pages:
- 1-26
- Publication date:
- 2010-03-01
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1474-0028
- ISSN:
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0266-2671
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- Language:
- English
- Pubs id:
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pubs:146070
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uuid:88a38a56-bcc7-4943-b74b-4d174c3131c0
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- pubs:146070
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146070
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- 2012-12-19
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- 2010
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