Where Do Preferences Come From?

How does economic theory match up with reality?

Also with

Video

Grantee Nisheeth Srivastava talks about his Institute-funded research which reexamines a fundamental assumption of economic theory. Srivastava is looking at preferences, which are taken as given and immutable in economics, and how they are actually formed in the real world. How does economic theory match up with reality?

Share your perspective