Back to Bentham? Explorations of Experienced Utility
- 1 May 1997
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in The Quarterly Journal of Economics
- Vol. 112 (2), 375-406
- https://doi.org/10.1162/003355397555235
Abstract
Two core meanings of “utility” are distinguished. “Decision utility” is the weight of an outcome in a decision. “Experienced utility” is hedonic qualKeywords
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