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The provided passages do not detail the specific evidence the author, Daniel M. Hausman, presents in his book "Preference, Value, Choice, and Welfare." The passages describe the book's subject matter, which includes clarifying and defending the use of preferences in economics, exploring their role in everyday language and action, and examining their understanding in psychology and philosophy [1]. Hausman also criticizes attempts to define welfare in terms of preferences and preferences in terms of choices or self-interest [1].
The passages mention that the book assembles materials for models of preference formation and modification and comments on how reason and emotion shape preferences [1]. However, they do not offer any specific examples of evidence used by Hausman to support his arguments or critiques.
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Title: Preference, Value, Choice, and Welfare by Daniel M. Hausman Description: This book is about preferences, principally as they figure in economics. It also explores their uses in everyday language and action, how they are understood in psychology and how they figure in philosophical reflection on action and morality. The book clarifies and for the most part defends the way in which economists invoke preferences to explain, predict and assess behavior and outcomes. Hausman argues, however, that the predictions and explanations economists offer rely on theories of preference formation…
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