Selected reading: A consumer-choice assumption and a behavioural counterexample.
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What gives something value?
Examine one behavioural case and specify which economic assumption it challenges.
Ideas and questions
Read background definitions when a term blocks the argument. Then return to the source and reconstruct its claim in your own words.
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Principles of Economics
Carl Menger. Compare assumptions, evidence and scope with the source above. These are editorial companions, not necessarily direct responses.
The Use of Knowledge in Society
Friedrich Hayek. Compare assumptions, evidence and scope with the source above. These are editorial companions, not necessarily direct responses.
Value and Capital
John Hicks. Compare assumptions, evidence and scope with the source above. These are editorial companions, not necessarily direct responses.
Microeconomic Theory
Mas-Colell, Whinston · Green. Compare assumptions, evidence and scope with the source above. These are editorial companions, not necessarily direct responses.
The Theory of Industrial Organization
Jean Tirole. Compare assumptions, evidence and scope with the source above. These are editorial companions, not necessarily direct responses.