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Utility - Mastering Choice The Science of Utility - cover

Utility - Mastering Choice The Science of Utility

Fouad Sabry

Editorial: One Billion Knowledgeable

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Sinopsis

What is Utility
 
In economics, utility is a measure of the satisfaction that a certain person has from a certain state of the world. Over time, the term has been used in two different meanings.The term was introduced initially as a measure of pleasure or happiness as part of the theory of utilitarianism, by moral philosophers such as Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill. In this context, the utilities of different people in the same state are comparable. In particular, one can compute the sum of all peoples' utilities in each state, and choose the state in which the sum is maximized; this leads to the utilitarian rule of social choice.The term has been adapted and reapplied within neoclassical economics, which dominates modern economic theory, as a representation of a consumer's ordinal preferences over a choice set. In this context, utility is not comparable across different consumers or possessing a cardinal interpretation. In fact, every monotone transformation of a utility function represents the same ordinal ranking over the alternatives, and thus is equivalent from the neoclassical economics point of view. In game theory, too, utility is used in the same meaning. This concept of utility is personal and based on choice rather than on pleasure received, and so requires fewer behavioral assumptions than the original concept.
 
How you will benefit
 
(I) Insights, and validations about the following topics:
 
Chapter 1: Utility
 
Chapter 2: Indifference curve
 
Chapter 3: Arrow's impossibility theorem
 
Chapter 4: Social welfare function
 
Chapter 5: Consumer choice
 
Chapter 6: Welfare economics
 
Chapter 7: Expected utility hypothesis
 
Chapter 8: Utility maximization problem
 
Chapter 9: Marshallian demand function
 
Chapter 10: Ordinal utility
 
Chapter 11: Cardinal utility
 
Chapter 12: Revealed preference
 
Chapter 13: Constant elasticity of substitution
 
Chapter 14: Quasilinear utility
 
Chapter 15: Von Neumann-Morgenstern utility theorem
 
Chapter 16: Preference (economics)
 
Chapter 17: Preference
 
Chapter 18: Debreu's representation theorems
 
Chapter 19: Multi-attribute utility
 
Chapter 20: Dichotomous preferences
 
Chapter 21: Responsive set extension
 
(II) Answering the public top questions about utility.
 
(III) Real world examples for the usage of utility in many fields.
 
Who this book is for
 
Professionals, undergraduate and graduate students, enthusiasts, hobbyists, and those who want to go beyond basic knowledge or information for any kind of Utility.
Disponible desde: 05/02/2024.
Longitud de impresión: 295 páginas.

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