Frey, Bruno S.; Stutzer, Alois - Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung <Zürich> - 2004
People not only obtain utility from actual outcomes but also from the conditionswhich lead to these outcomes. The paper … proposes an economic concept of this notion ofprocedural utility. Preferences beyond outcome can be manifold. We distinguish … utility from activities towards which people have an intrinsicattitude and procedural utility from the way being treated in …