Remarks concerning concave utility functions on finite sets

DOI10.1007/S00199-004-0545-XMaRDI QIDQ2486962zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Yakar Kannai

Publication date 17 August 2005

Published in Economic Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s00199-004-0545-x

zbMATH Keywords

computing algorithmconcave utilityfinite setsleast concavity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Utility theory (91B16)

Review text

The author suggests a procedure for computing utility levels successively from the bottom up, one indifference level at a time. There is shown that in the finite case least concave utilities do not necessarily exist.

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