1. individuals maximize their utility from basic preferences that do not change rapidly over time;See GARY S. BECKER, A TREATISE ON THE FAMILY ix,1981
2. at 211 (rejecting the "doctrine within which all explanations of social phenomena have to be couched in terms of statements about individuals" and also noting that the expression methodological individualism "carries;See For;Behind Methodological Individualism,1986
3. The Rhetoric of Law and Economics