Sentence examples for interpersonal comparisons from inspiring English sources

The desire-satisfaction view may render interpersonal comparisons empirically meaningful (by relating the interpersonally significant maximal and minimal levels of welfare for each individual to the attainment of his or her most and least preferred alternatives), but at the expense of running into problems of expensive tastes or adaptive preferences (Hausman 1995).

Many economists consider interpersonal comparisons meaningless.

Private: We cannot make interpersonal comparisons of qualia.

Harsanyi, J. C. Cardinal welfare, individualistic ethics, and interpersonal comparisons of utility.

We just have no way of knowing because we don't allow interpersonal comparisons of utility.

In J.E. Roemer & J.E. Elster (Eds.), Interpersonal comparisons of well-being (pp. 127-163).

How can that possibly be the case," but notice we've ruled out interpersonal comparisons of utility now.

Hammond, P. J. in Interpersonal Comparisons of Well-Being (eds Elster, J. & Roemer, J. E.) 200 254 (Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge, 1991).

It is revealed that the main departure of neoclassical utilitarianism from classical utilitarianism was that it did away with Bentham's troublesome interpersonal comparisons of utility.

Contemporary economics is grounded in an ordinal-value theory that does not allow interpersonal comparisons and that incompletely ranks states of affairs.

Such precise measurement as Bentham envisioned is perhaps not essential, but it is nonetheless necessary for the utilitarian to make some interpersonal comparisons of the values of the effects of alternative courses of action.