Determinateness of the Utility Function: Revisiting a Controversy of the Thirties

DOI10.2307/2297277zbMath0478.90006OpenAlexW2058557023MaRDI QIDQ3936448

Kaushik Basu

Publication date: 1982

Published in: The Review of Economic Studies (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2307/2297277

zbMATH Keywords

continuitycardinalityconnected domainunrestricted domain assumption

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Utility theory (91B16)

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