Measuring Utility: From the Marginal Revolution to Behavioral Economics. Prologue

Marginal Revolution to Behavioral Economics, published in 2018 by Oxford University Press

20 Pages Posted: 17 Jan 2019

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Ivan Moscati

University of Insubria - Department of Economics; Bocconi University - Baffi Carefin Centre; London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE) - Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science (CPNSS)

Date Written: January 7, 2019

Abstract

This paper is the penultimate version of the Prologue to my book Measuring Utility. From the Marginal Revolution to Behavioral Economics, published in 2018 by Oxford University Press in the series Oxford Studies in the History of Economics.

Keywords: Utility measurement, utility theory, measurement theory, economic methodology, ordinal utility, cardinal utility, choice behavior, expected utility theory, experimental utility measurement, measurement of sensations

JEL Classification: B21, B23, B41, C91, D11, D81, D90

Suggested Citation

Moscati, Ivan, Measuring Utility: From the Marginal Revolution to Behavioral Economics. Prologue (January 7, 2019). Marginal Revolution to Behavioral Economics, published in 2018 by Oxford University Press, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3311558

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