Measuring Utility (Record no. 26115)
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| fixed length control field | 02180 a2200157 4500 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| ISBN | 9780199372775 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 330.157 |
| Item number | MOS-M |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME | |
| Personal name | Moscati, Ivan |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Measuring Utility |
| Sub Title | : from the marginal revolution to behavioral economics |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Name of publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Year of publication | 2019 |
| Place of publication | New York |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | ix, 326p |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE | |
| Bibliography, etc | Include Reference and Index |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | The utility is a key concept in the economics of individual decision-making. However, the utility is not measurable in a straightforward way. As a result, from the very beginning, there have been debates about the meaning of utility as well as how to measure it. This book is an innovative investigation of how these arguments changed over time. Measuring Utility reconstructs economists' ideas and discussions about utility measurement from 1870 to 1985, as well as their attempts to measure utility empirically. The book brings into focus the interplay between the evolution of utility analysis, economists' ideas about utility measurement, and their conception of what measurement in general means. It also explores the relationships between the history of utility measurement in economics, the history of the measurement of sensations in psychology, and the history of measurement theory in general. Finally, the book discusses some methodological problems related to utility measurements, such as the epistemological status of the utility concept and its measures. The first part covers the period 1870-1910 and discusses the issue of utility measurement in the theories of Jevons, Menger, Walras and other early utility theorists. Part II deals with the emergence of the notions of ordinal and cardinal utility during the period 1900-1945 and discusses two early attempts to give empirical content to the notion of utility. Part III focuses on the 1945-1955 debate on utility measurement that was originated by von Neumann and Morgenstern's expected utility theory (EUT). Part IV reconstructs the experimental attempts to measure the utility of money between 1950 and 1985 within the framework provided by EUT. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Economics |
| Form subdivision | Utility theory |
| -- | Economics--History |
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| Koha item type | Books |
| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Damaged status | Not for loan | Home library | Current library | Date acquired | Source of acquisition | Cost, normal purchase price | Bill Date | Total Checkouts | Full call number | Accession Number | Date last seen | Cost, replacement price | Price effective from | Koha item type |
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| NASSDOC Library | NASSDOC Library | 29/06/2020 | OP | 1310.35 | 2020-06-11 | 330.157 MOS-M | 50885 | 13/07/2020 | 1795.00 | 11/06/2020 | Books |