A Note on Measurement of Utility

Samuelson, P. A. (1937). A Note on Measurement of Utility. Review of Economic Studies, 4(2), 155-161.

Type

Journal article

Intellectual base

Review or monograph

Year

1937

Volume

4

Issue

2

Pages

155-161

DOI

10.2307/2967612

DOI registrant

Oxford University Press

Link

https://doi.org/10.2307/2967612

Cited from

economics_finance

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3 citations across 3 artifacts.

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Primes

• Time Preference (Discounting Future)
  • and through Paul Samuelson's

    This sourceIntroduces exponential (constant-rate) discounted-utility model; establishes analytical foundation for twentieth-century intertemporal economics.

• Time Value of Money
  • refined intertemporal-choice framework, separating the consumer's impatience (time preference) from investment opportunities (the productivity of capital); and Samuelson's (1937)

    This sourceIntroduces exponential (constant-rate) discounted-utility model; establishes analytical foundation for twentieth-century intertemporal economics.

Domain-specific

• Discount function
  • A discount function assigns each future delay a weight used to convert dated utility or payoff into its present contribution, commonly normalized to one at zero delay.

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