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Adaptive preferences is the philosophical and welfare-economic vocabulary for what happens when a person's wants shift in response to what they can actually get. The fox in La Fontaine's fable decides the unreachable grapes are sour; a defeated worker decides she never wanted the promotion; a caregiver whose career stalled decides family is what she values most. The question the literature addresses is whether such preference shifts are *rational* updates (you should listen to them), *irrational* cope (you should discount them), or something in between. The concept matters outside philosophy b…
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