A response to six comments on The Community of Advantage

Sugden, Robert (2021) A response to six comments on The Community of Advantage. Journal of Economic Methodology, 28 (4). pp. 419-430. ISSN 1350-178X

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Abstract

This paper responds to six contributions to a symposium on my 2018 book, The Community of Advantage. I defend that book’s claim that most normative behavioural economics implicitly uses a psychologically ungrounded model of an ‘inner rational agent’. I also defend the claim that, given the contractarian approach taken in the book, opportunity is normatively prior to welfare and to particular ingredients of well-being, such as health and perceptions of agency. I show how the Strong Interactive Opportunity Criterion proposed in the book can be extended to allow comparisons between the extent of opportunity provided by different economic regimes.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	Issue 4: The Community of Advantage Symposium
Uncontrolled Keywords:	behavioural economics,competitive market,mutual benefit,contractarianism,opportunity,economics, econometrics and finance(all) ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/2000
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Economics
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Centres > Centre for Behavioural and Experimental Social Sciences Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Centres > Centre for Competition Policy Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Behavioural Economics Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Economic Theory
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Depositing User:	LivePure Connector
Date Deposited:	15 Oct 2021 01:13
Last Modified:	21 Apr 2023 01:10
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/81716
DOI:	10.1080/1350178X.2021.1994634

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