How we may have been misled into believing in the interpersonal comparability of utility

DOI10.1007/BF00125671zbMATH Open0536.90010MaRDI QIDQ792196FDOQ792196

Louis Narens, R. Duncan Luce

Publication date: 1983

Published in: Theory and Decision (Search for Journal in Brave)

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zbMATH Keywords

ordinal intercomparability of utilities

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Utility theory (91B16)

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