Dr. Petur Jonsson, chairman of Fayetteville State University’s Department of Finance, Economics, Entrepreneurship, and Marketing, questions economists’ traditional reliance on “utility” as the key factor in determining how people make their choices. Jonsson offered these comments during an interview for Carolina Journal Radio (Program No. 403).
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