The Unimportance of the Intransitivity of Separable Preferences

DOI10.2307/2526726MaRDI QIDQ4734990zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Larry G. Epstein

Publication date 1987

Published in International Economic Review (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.2307/2526726

zbMATH Keywords

additive utility functioncontinuous demand functionnon-transitivitynot necessarily transitive preferenceStrong separability

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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• Do transitive preferences always result in indifferent divisions?
• Intransitive Indifference and Revealed Preference
• Inertia implies disorder: kinks, incompleteness, and intransitivity
• Instrumental rationality without separability
• Weakening transferable utility: the case of non-intersecting Pareto curves
• Weak axiomatic demand theory

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