Measuring Utility (Paperback)

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Lingua: inglese

Editore: Oxford University Press Inc, New York, 2019

0199372772 / 9780199372775

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Paperback. Utility is a key concept in the economics of individual decision-making. However, utility is not measurable in a straightforward way. As a result, from the very beginning there has been debates about the meaning of utility as well as how to measure it. This book is an innovative investigation of how these arguments changed over time.Measuring Utility reconstructs economists' ideas and discussions about utility measurement from 1870 to1985, as well as their attempts to measure utility empirically. The book brings into focus the interplay between the evolution of utility analysis, economists' ideas about utility measurement, and theirconception of what measurement in general means. It also explores the relationships between the history of utility measurement in economics, the history of the measurement of sensations in psychology, and the history of measurement theory in general. Finally, the book discusses some methodological problems related to utility measurement, such as the epistemological status of the utility concept and its measures.The first part covers the period 1870-1910, and discusses theissue of utility measurement in the theories of Jevons, Menger, Walras and other early utility theorists. Part II deals with the emergence of the notions of ordinal and cardinal utility during theperiod 1900-1945, and discusses two early attempts to give an empirical content to the notion of utility. Part III focuses on the 1945-1955 debate on utility measurement that was originated by von Neumann and Morgenstern's expected utility theory (EUT). Part IV reconstructs the experimental attempts to measure the utility of money between 1950 and 1985 within the framework provided by EUT.This historical and epistemological overview provides keen insights into currentdebates about rational choice theory and behavioral economics in the theory of individual decision-making and the philosophy of economics. Since the marginal revolution of the 1870s, the economic theory of decision-making has been based on the notion of utility. Utility, however, is not measurable. This book reconstructs economists' struggles with issues related to utility measurement from the 1870s to the beginning of behavioral economics in the mid-1980s. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Titolo
Measuring Utility (Paperback)
Autore
Ivan Moscati
Editore
Oxford University Press Inc, New York
Anno di pubblicazione
2019
Condizione
new
Rilegatura
Paperback
Lingua
inglese
ISBN 10
0199372772
ISBN 13
9780199372775

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