Search Results - subject:"cardinal utility"

Multiutility representations for incomplete difference preorders

Pivato, Marcus - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

sufficient conditions for a difference preorder to be representable by a family of cardinal utility functions which take values …

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How cardinal utility entered economic analysis during the Ordinal RevolutionLength: 31 pages

Moscati, Ivan - Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi dell'Insubria - 2012

The paper shows that cardinal utility entered economic analysis during the Ordinal Revolution initiated by Pareto and … not, as many popular histories of utility theory assume, before it. Cardinal utility was the outcome of a discussion begun … period contributed to it, with Samuelson in particular playing a pivotal role in defining and popularizing cardinal utility …

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Income taxation and the choice of the tax rate schedule : sacrifice principles and "just" tax rates

Petersen, Hans-Georg - 2011

In the history of economic thoughts the problem of a "just" tax rate structure has played an important role. The paper reconsiders the discussions of the last two centuries and sheds additional light on the concrete tax schedules using the more recent methods of tax theory. Even if the...

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Income taxation and the choice of the tax rate schedule: Sacrifice principles and "just" tax rates

Petersen, Hans-Georg - 2011

In the history of economic thoughts the problem of a just tax rate structure has played an important role. The paper reconsiders the discussions of the last two centuries and sheds additional light on the concrete tax schedules using the more recent methods of tax theory. Even if the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282649

Social choice with approximate interpersonal comparison of welfare gains

Pivato, Marcus - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

Suppose it is possible to make approximate interpersonal comparisons of welfare gains and losses. Thus, if w, x, y, and z are personal psychophysical states (each encoding all ethically relevant information about the physical and mental state of a person), then it sometimes possible to say,...

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Income Taxation and the Choice of the Tax Rate Schedule: Sacrifice Principles and "Just" Tax Rates

Petersen, Hans-Georg - Lehrstuhl für Finanzwissenschaft, Wirtschafts- und … - 2011

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Choice-based cardinal utility : a tribute to Patrick Suppes

Baccelli, Jean; Mongin, Philippe - In: The journal of economic methodology 23 (2016) 3, pp. 268-288

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Social choice with approximate interpersonal comparison of welfare gains

Pivato, Marcus - In: Theory and decision : an international journal for … 79 (2015) 2, pp. 181-216

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Actitudes hacia el riesgo. Teoria de la utilidad cardinal

Velez-Pareja, Ignacio - MASTER CONSULTORES - 2009

Este es material de curso del libro Decisiones Empresariales bajo Riesgo e Incertidumbre. El nivel del libro es basico. Se usan muy pocas matematicas y puede ser usado por gerentes. En este quinto capitulo se presenta la teoria clasica de la utilidad cardinal y se ilustran los tres casos mas...

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Sincerity in Simple and Complex Voting Mechanisms

Oyarzun, Miguel Ángel Ballester; Biel, Pedro Rey - Departament d'Economia i Història Econòmica, … - 2008

We discuss sincere voting when voters have cardinal preferences over alternatives. We interpret sincerity as opposed to strategic voting, and thus define sincerity as the optimal behavior when conditions to vote strategically diminish. When voting mechanisms allow for only one message type...

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