{"status":"ok","message-type":"work","message-version":"1.0.0","message":{"indexed":{"date-parts":[[2026,7,3]],"date-time":"2026-07-03T10:37:51Z","timestamp":1783075071403,"version":"3.54.6"},"reference-count":0,"publisher":"Oxford University Press","isbn-type":[{"value":"9780198825142","type":"print"}],"content-domain":{"domain":[],"crossmark-restriction":false},"short-container-title":[],"published-print":{"date-parts":[[2018,7,19]]},"abstract":"<p>Normative analysis in economics has usually aimed at satisfying individuals\u2019 preferences. Its conclusions have supported a long-standing liberal tradition of economics that values economic freedom and views markets favourably. However, behavioural research shows that individuals\u2019 preferences, as revealed in choices, are often unstable, and vary according to contextual factors that seem irrelevant for welfare. <italic>The Community of Advantage<\/italic> proposes a reformulation of normative economics that is compatible with what is now known about the psychology of choice. Other such reformulations have assumed that people have well-defined \u2018latent\u2019 preferences which, because of psychologically-induced errors, are not always revealed in actual choices. According to these reformulations, the economist\u2019s job is to reconstruct latent preferences and to design policies to satisfy them. The argument of this book is that latent preference and error are psychologically ungrounded concepts, and that economics needs to be more radical in giving up rationality assumptions. The book advocates a kind of normative economics that does not use the concept of preference. Its recommendations are addressed, not to an imagined \u2018social planner\u2019, but to citizens, viewed as potential parties to mutually beneficial agreements. Its normative criterion is the provision of opportunities for individuals to participate in voluntary transactions. Using this approach, many of the normative conclusions of the liberal tradition are reconstructed. It is argued that a well-functioning market economy is an institution that individuals have reason to value, whether or not their preferences satisfy conventional axioms of rationality, and that individuals\u2019 motivations in such an economy can be cooperative rather than self-interested.<\/p>","DOI":"10.1093\/oso\/9780198825142.001.0001","type":"edited-book","created":{"date-parts":[[2018,7,19]],"date-time":"2018-07-19T22:12:23Z","timestamp":1532038343000},"source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":221,"title":["The Community of Advantage"],"prefix":"10.1093","author":[{"given":"Robert","family":"Sugden","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"286","container-title":["Oxford Scholarship Online"],"original-title":["The Community of Advantage"],"language":"en","deposited":{"date-parts":[[2022,8,3]],"date-time":"2022-08-03T00:15:16Z","timestamp":1659485716000},"score":1,"resource":{"primary":{"URL":"https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/book\/10329"}},"subtitle":[],"short-title":[],"issued":{"date-parts":[[2018,7,19]]},"ISBN":["9780198825142"],"references-count":0,"URL":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/oso\/9780198825142.001.0001","relation":{},"subject":[],"published":{"date-parts":[[2018,7,19]]}}}