The Utility Theorems of Wold, Debreu, and Arrow-Hahn

DOI10.2307/2951480zbMath0797.90005OpenAlexW1982927434MaRDI QIDQ4284152

Ghanshyam B. Mehta, Alan F. Beardon

Publication date: 25 October 1994

Published in: Econometrica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2307/2951480

zbMATH Keywords

existence of a continuous utility functionweakly monotone preference relationWold's theorem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Utility theory (91B16) Individual preferences (91B08)

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