"revealed preference" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: revealed preferences [plural]
Etymology: Coined by American economist Paul Samuelson in the title of his 1948 paper expounding a theory for inferring consumer preference from purchasing habits. Samuelson first published a version of his theory ten years earlier, in a 1938 paper, but did not use the term revealed preference in the 1938 paper. Etymology templates: {{coin|en|Q102454|nobycat=1}} Coined by American economist Paul Samuelson Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} revealed preference (countable and uncountable, plural revealed preferences)
  1. A consumer preference as inferred from purchasing habits according to a theory invented by American economist Paul A. Samuelson. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Economics Translations (inferred preference): offenbarte Präferenz [feminine] (German)
    Sense id: en-revealed_preference-en-noun-TJYjIqSI Disambiguation of Economics: 51 49 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 49 51 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 54 46 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 55 45 Disambiguation of 'inferred preference': 56 44
  2. (uncountable) Samuelson's theory for inferring consumer preference from purchasing habits. Tags: uncountable Categories (topical): Economics
    Sense id: en-revealed_preference-en-noun-cc0tVvQP Disambiguation of Economics: 51 49 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 49 51 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 54 46
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: foot voting, vote with one's feet

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