...Ivan Moscati The article studies the origin, content, and impact of two experiments to measure the utility of money, one by Frederick Mosteller and Philip Nogee in 1948–49 and one by Donald Davidson, Patrick Suppes, and Sidney Siegel in 1954. Both experiments relied on expected utility theory (EUT...

... . ‘Determinateness of the utility function: revisiting a controversy of the thirties.’ Review of Economic Studies 49 : 307 -11. Bilimovič , Alexander 1932 . ‘Die Preis- und Wertlehre.’ In Hans Mayer, ed., Die Wirtschaftstheorie der Gegenwart , vol. 2 . Wien. Blakers , A. L. 1967...

...Robert B. Ekelund, Jr.; Robert F. Hebert Copyright © 1976 by Duke University Press 1976 Robert Ekelund is Professor of Economics at Texas A&M University. Robert Hebert is Associate Professor of Economics at Auburn University. Dupuit and marginal utility: context...

... University Press CCC 0018-2702/84/$1.50 Considerations on utility, benevolence, and taxation Su broto Roy I shall mean by ‘benevolence’the giving of some of what one owns to one or more others whom one judges to have greater need...

... of Exchange. Economica 12 (May): 197 -226. ———. 1933 . On the Marginal Utility of Money and its Applications. Economica 13 (May): 186 -209. ———. 1934a . A Comparison between Different Definitions of Complementary and Competitive Goods. Econometrica 2 (April): 168 -75. ———. 1934b...

... . 1930 . Är gränsnytteläran onödig? [Is the marginal utility theory unnecessary?]. Ekonomisk Tidskrift 32 . 3 : 117 -22. Cassel , Gustav . 1902 . Der Ausgangspunkt der theoretischen Ökonomie. Zeitschrift für die gesammte Staatswissenschaft 58 . 4 : 668 -98. Cassel , Gustav...

... , Vilfredo . [ 1909 ] 1971. Manual of Political Economy . Translated by A. S. Schwier. New York: Augustus M. Kelley. Ricci , Umberto . 1904 . Curve Crescenti di Ofelimità e di Domanda (Upward sloping marginal utility and demand curves). Giornale degli Economisti 29 ( August ): 112 -38...

... and Significance of Economic Science . London:Macmillan. ____. 1981 . Economics and Political Economy. American Economic Review 71 : 1 -10. Rosenstein-Rodan, P. [1927] 1994 . Marginal Utility. In Classics in Austrian Economics , edited by I. Kirzner, 170 -212. London: Pickering and Chatto. Schneider...

... . The Foundations of a Mathematical Theory of Exchange. Economica 12 : 197 -226. Allen, R.G. D. 1933 . On the Marginal Utility of Money and Its Applications. Economica 13 : 186 -209. ____. 1934a . A Comparison between Different Definitions of Complementary and Competitive Goods. Econometrica 2 : 168...

...Shiri Cohen Kaminitz The concept of utility, which stood at the heart of J. S. Mill’s utilitarian moral philosophy, played only a minor role in his account of economics. The economic idea of (individual) utility, as is well known, neither inspired Mill directly nor excited his attention when...

...Steven G. Medema The Tyranny of Utility: Behavioral Social Science and the Rise of Paternalism . By Saint-Paul Gilles . Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press , 2011 . vii ; 163 pp. Cloth $39.50 . Copyright 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 Book Reviews Henry...

.... These papers emerged within a debate on the relationship between marginal utility and the ordinality/cardinality of utility. The present article identifies Alt’s, Samuelson’s, and Bernardelli’s contributions and delineates the relationship between marginal utility and reference-dependence. It also discusses...

...Donald A. Walker History of Political Economy 16:4 0 1984 by Duke University Press CCC 0018-2702/84/$1.50 Walras and his critics on the maximum utility...

... are to the Dover edition. Stigler , George J. 1950 . ‘The development of utility theory, II.’ Journal of Political Economy 58 ( Oct. 1950 ): 373 -96. Tintner , Gerhard 1941 . ‘The theory of choice under subjective risk and uncertainty.’ Econometrica 9 : 298 -304. Tintner , Gerhard...

... . The Economics of Enterprise . New York: Macmillan. Ellsberg , D. 1954 . Classic and Current Notions of “Measurable Utility” Economic Journal 64 ( September ): 528 -56. Fishburn , P. 1989 . Retrospective on the Utility Theory of von Neumann and Morgenstern. Journal of Risk and Uncertainty...

...Ivan Moscati This article argues that the canonical dichotomy between cardinal utility and ordinal utility is inadequate to tell an accurate history of utility theory, and that a third form of utility consistent with the so-called classical understanding of measurement should be added...

...Marco Dardi This article argues that Marshall's theory of market choice was originally elaborated within the classic framework of the use value/exchangeable value dichotomy, with reference to a version of utilitarianism that did not assume measurable utility. The key concepts were those of marginal...

... on Integrability, Symmetry, and Utility as Potential Energy in Mirowski’s Critical History D. Wade Hands In an earlier paper (Hands 1992) I argued that while there is much to be said in favor of Mirowski’s central thesis in More Heat than Light, there are some questions raised...

...Mauro Boianovsky Knut Wicksell discussed in his 1893 Value, Capital, and Rent , as part of a critical comment on Launhardt and Jevons, conditions for consistent aggregation. He argued that Jevons's “trading body” concept was only valid if identical linear marginal utility functions (with ensuing...

...George J. Stigler Copyright © 1972 by Duke University Press 1972 GEORGE J. STIGLER is Charles R. Walgreen Distinguished Professor of American Institutions at the University of Chicago. The Adoption of the Marginal Utility Theory...