Hi, maybe Cost and Choice by J. M. Buchanan could be helpful for your  
project.

good luck,

Le 3 nov. 10 à 16:43, luigino bruni a écrit :

> Hi, maybe you may see in a paper by me with F. Guala in Hope (2001),
> but Ivan Moscati wrote some papers on the early fundations of choice
> theory. Also in a EJ paper with R. Sugden (the road not take, 2007) we
> discussed some issues related to preferences and choice at the end of
> XIX cent. Ciao, Luigino
>
> 2010/11/2 Catherine Herfeld <[log in to unmask]>:
>> Dear list members,
>>
>> I have the following two requests and maybe some of you have
>> recommendations:
>>
>> 1. Can anybody recommend literature (in history of economic thought  
>> or
>> philosophy) on the origins of and influences on the "choice - based
>> approach" to human decision making in for example microeconomics ( as
>> opposed to the "preference-based approach"), apart from Samuelson,  
>> the early
>> game theorists, Savage, Arrow and Sen?
>>
>> 2. Does anyone know of an (early) example of a model of consumer  
>> behavior
>> based upon that approach?
>>
>> I would be grateful for some comments!
>>
>> Best wishes,
>> Catherine Herfeld
>>
>> (PhD Student Philosophy of Economics - Witten/Herdecke University)
>>