唐伯小猫 发表于 2009-3-25 21:35
Lancaster (1979) asserts that consumers do have preferences for a specific or ‘ideal’ variety, and ranks all available varieties by their distance from this ideal. Lancaster contends that “individuals are interested in goods not for their own sake but because of the characteristics they possess, so that the demand for goods is derived and indirect, and depends on preferences with respect to characteristics and on the technical properties that determine how characteristics are embodied in different goods”( 1979:17)
我粗略查了下,MWG确实没有关于这方面的内容,也许这就是MWG的风格吧——看我的书的人,已经用不着在书里面给你讲这些了,只要你看懂了书,这些东西你自己也就都很清楚了。
建议看一下《经济学的结构——数量分析方法》。