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This paper presents a unified axiomatic treatment of the existence of ordinal and cardinal utility functions. The contribution of the paper is mainly pedagogical.
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Jarrow, R. An integrated axiomatic approach to the existence of ordinal and cardinal utility functions. Theor Decis 22, 99–110 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00126385
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