Measuring Utility: From the Marginal Revolution to Behavioral Economics

PART I: Utility Measurement in Early Utility Theories, 1870-1910
1. When Unit-Based Measurement Ruled the World: An Interdisciplinary Overview, 1870-1910
2. Is There a Unit of Utility? : Jevons, Menger, and Walras on the Measurability of Utility, 1870-1910
3. Still on the Quest for a Unit: Utility Measurement in Wieser, Böhm-Bawerk, Edgeworth, Fisher, and Marshall, 1880-1910
PART II: Ordinal and Cardinal Utility, and Early Empirical Measurements of Utility, 1900-1945
4. Fundamental Measurement, Sensation Differences, and the British Controversy on Psychological Measurement, 1910-1940
5. Ordinal Utility: Pareto and the Austrians, 1900-1915
6. Cardinal Utility: How It Entered Economic Analysis from Pareto to Samuelson, 1915-1945
7. Going Empirical: The Econometric and Experimental Approaches to Utility Measurement of Frisch and Thurstone, 1925-1945
PART III: From Debating Expected Utility Theory to Re-Defining Utility Measurement, 1945-1955
8. Stevens and the Operational Definition of Measurement in Psychology, 1935-1950
9. The Expected Utility Theory and Measurement Theory of von Neumann and Morgenstern, 1944-1947
10. What Is That Function?: Friedman, Savage, Marschak, Samuelson, and Baumol on EUT, 1947-1950
11. From Chicago to Paris: The Debate Continues, 1950-1952
12. Conventions, Operations, Predictions: Re-Defining Utility Measurement, 1952-1955
PART IV: Expected Utility Theory and Experimental Utility Measurement, 1950-1985
13. Experimental Utility Measurement: The Age of Confidence I, 1950-1960
14. Marschak and Utility Measurement at Yale: The Age of Confidence II, 1960-1965
15. From Utility Measurement to the Representational Theory of Measurement: The Case of Suppes, 1950-1970
16. Measuring Utility, Destabilizing EUT: Behavioral Economics Begins, 1965-1985