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Interpersonal comparisons of utility: Why and how they are and should be made

In Jon Elster & John E. Roemer (eds.), Interpersonal Comparisons of Well-Being. New York: Cambridge University Press. pp. 200--254 (1991)

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    Behaviour norms are considered for decision trees which allow both objective probabilities and uncertain states of the world with unknown probabilities. Terminal nodes have consequences in a given domain. Behaviour is required to be consistent in subtrees. Consequentialist behaviour, by definition, reveals a consequence choice function independent of the structure of the decision tree. It implies that behaviour reveals a revealed preference ordering satisfying both the independence axiom and a novel form of sure-thing principle. Continuous consequentialist behaviour must be expected (...)
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