What People Want: The Concept of Utility from Bentham to Game TheoryJuta and Company Ltd, 1999 - 382 sayfa This guide takes the reader on an intriguing journey to trace the origins of political economy - a phrase that recently came back into vogue as economists and political and moral philosophers rediscovered shared concerns. |
İçindekiler
Jeremy Bentham | 34 |
Utilitarianism | 58 |
William Stanley Jevons | 89 |
Help from the Story Books | 108 |
Demand and Utility | 126 |
Materialist Conceptions of Value | 145 |
Twentieth Century Welfare Economics | 167 |
Revealed Preference Theory | 173 |
The Problem of Aggregating Utility | 206 |
Cardinalisation at last | 230 |
Benthams Problem Narrowed | 252 |
the Great Wall | 297 |
Arrows Mathematical Politics | 328 |
A New Conceptual Framework | 342 |
Benthams Problem Solved Unsolved or Dissolved? | 369 |
The Empirical Implications of Utility Analysis | 191 |
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