With respect to reflective decision theory: a few weeks ago I saw a talk by economist Jason Potts on the “economics of identity”. Apparently there is a small literature now—Nobel laureate George Akerlof was mentioned—examining the effects of identity-dependent utility functions, where one’s “identity” is something like “one’s currently dominant self-concept”. Jason described the existing work as static, and said he had a paper coming out which would introduce a dynamic account—I got the impression of something like Tom McCabe’s self-referential agent.
With respect to reflective decision theory: a few weeks ago I saw a talk by economist Jason Potts on the “economics of identity”. Apparently there is a small literature now—Nobel laureate George Akerlof was mentioned—examining the effects of identity-dependent utility functions, where one’s “identity” is something like “one’s currently dominant self-concept”. Jason described the existing work as static, and said he had a paper coming out which would introduce a dynamic account—I got the impression of something like Tom McCabe’s self-referential agent.