Behaviour and the concept of preference

By Amartya Sen. 1971

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Artificial Intelligence, Values, and Alignment (2020, background): “This means that it is very hard to make reliable inferences from observed behaviour, and it may be impossible to do so without making controversial assumptions about human rationality (Sen, 1973; Armstrong and Mindermann, 2018).”
The Economic Contributions of Amartya Sen (2000, background): “Sen (1973d , 1973e) has also developed a measure of inequality similar to his poverty measure.”
On the relation between ecosystem services, intrinsic value, existence value and economic valuation (2013, background): “This side effect may be small or negligible, meaning that acts out of such other-regarding preferences may ‘drive a wedge between personal choice and personal welfare’ (Sen, 1977: 329; see also Sen, 1973).”
Performing the economy, performing science: from neoclassical to supply chain models in the agrifood sector (2007, background): “Furthermore, in NE models demand emerges from essentially fixed consumer preferences; effective demand (as noted in actual purchases) is the display of those preferences at a given price (cf. Sen 1973).”
Ethics and Climate Change Cost-Benefit Analysis: Stern and After (2009, background): “For seminal contributions in economics and philosophy see Sen 1973; Davidson 1963.”
Will Farmers Trade Profits for Stewardship? Heterogeneous Motivations for Farm Practice Selection (2008, background): “Sen (1973) points out that one can have a pure self-interest (isolated personal interest) as well as a self-interest including sympathy, a commitment based index, and one or more separate indices based on additional moral principles.”