"Coherent Arbitrariness": Stable Demand Curves without Stable Preferences

Author(s): Dan Ariely, George Loewenstein and Drazen Prelec

Source: The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. 118, No. 1 (Feb., 2003), pp. 73-105
Published by: Oxford University Press
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