Re: Utility Maximisation

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Subject: Re: Utility Maximisation
From: GBRansom@xxxxxxx by emout05.mail.aol.com (8.7.6/8.7.3/AOL-2.0.0) Mon, 6 Oct 1997 04:11:01 -0400 (EDT)
Date: Mon, 6 Oct 1997 04:11:01 -0400 (EDT)

In a message dated 97-10-02 17:11:44 EDT, Alan writes:

<< Is Gary Becker doing economics when he works
 on the implications of altruism in the family?
 Are family interactions "economic behavior"? >>

This is a good question.


On the explanatory failings of the Becker program, see
Alex Rosenberg, _Microeconomics_ Chicago:  U. of Chicago Press,
1992, and some of Rosenberg's other writings on Becker.


Greg Ransom
Dept. of Philosophy
UC-Riverside
gbransom@xxxxxxx
http://members.aol.com/gregransom/hayekpage.htm

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