In economic theory, utility depends on past, present and future outcomes. The experiment described in this paper … suggests that utility also depends on people's attitudes, and that it can easily be manipulated through these attitudes. The … results imply, first, that purely outcome-based models of individual utility may be incomplete. Second, that reference …

The concept of utility is often used in ambiguous ways in economics, from having substantive psychological connotations … conceive of utility. It turns out that empirical evidence does not favor a view of multidimensional utility. This does not … eliminate the possibility to make a normative argument supporting a multidimensional notion of utility. …

-dimensional decision outcomes, economic theory assumes a uni-dimensional utility measure. This paper reviews evidence from behavioral and … makers' difficulties can be explained once the motivational aspects of utility (wanting) are disentangled from the …

Carlo simulations. Preferences are modeled by time-additive expected utility and, alternatively, by recursive non …-expected utility. The empirical results for the period 1960 to 1994 confirm those for the U.S. and favour the use of recursive non …-expected utility which clearly distinguishes between risk preference and time preference. The leverage approach yields the first moment …

public expenditures are financed from linear wage taxes. We derive the reported wages from individual utility maximization … the utility of public services. The major conjecture is illustrated by numerical examples: the optimal degree of …