Bentham or Bergson? Finite Sensibility, Utility Functions and Social Welfare Functions

DOI10.2307/2296793zbMath0315.90009OpenAlexW2044811923MaRDI QIDQ4077027

Yew-Kwang Ng

Publication date: 1975

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2307/2296793

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Decision theory (91B06) Utility theory (91B16)

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