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On cardinal utility

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Necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of a cardinal utility function on a set X are presented.

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  1. Department of Economics, University of Illinois at Chicago Circle, Chicago, USA

    A. Camacho

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Camacho, A. On cardinal utility. Theor Decis 10, 131–145 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00126335

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