Lapidus, Andr; Sigot, Nathalie - In: The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought 7 (2000) 1, pp. 45-78
This paper aims at exploring, in a formal way, Bentham's statement that 'the pleasure of gaining is not equal to the evil of losing', which belongs to those aspects of the principle of utility left aside by Jevons' reconstruction. Consequently, the agent's preference order will be viewed as...