Ebert, Udo; Hagen, Oskar von dem - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 222 (2002) 5, pp. 513-530
Summary This paper presents a unifying approach to modelling endogenous tastes. Tastes are defined as orderings of a subspace of a (suitable chosen) commodity space. Using this definition endogenous tastes are analytically similar to externalities. Accordingly, many models in economic theory can...