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Utility: Ideas and Terminology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 December 2008

Amartya Sen
Amartya Sen
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Harvard University
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Economics & Philosophy , Volume 7 , Issue 2 , October 1991 , pp. 277 - 283
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