Utilitarianism and Economic Behavior. Looking for Benthamite Traces

Jimena Hurtado () and Johanna Mick ()

No 9251, Documentos CEDE from Universidad de los Andes, Facultad de Economía, CEDE

Abstract: In spite of the use of a utilitarian language in Rational Choice Theory, economists do not acknowledge any link to this current of moral philosophy, and have made great efforts to rid economics from its legacy. In this document we aim at assessing these efforts retracing their history from Pareto to Samuelson in order to determine how close they came to their ideal of formulating a positive science rid of what they called any metaphysical traces.

Keywords: Utilitarianism; Rational Choice Theory; Axiom of Revealed Preferences (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: B12 B21 B31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 44
Date: 2011-10-04
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