May 23, 2019 20:39
4 yrs ago
French term

ordinalisme et cardinalisme en microéconomie

French to English Social Sciences Philosophy
Bonjour,
Je traduis un relevé de notes datant de 1996 pour un examen de "D.E.A. de Philosophie Économique".
Je ne dispose que des intitulés des cours et des notes. Celui-ci, "ordinalisme et cardinalisme en microéconomie" était dispensé par M. C. Blackorby à l'université d'aix-Marseille.... en 1996 je rappelle.

Merci pour votre aide.
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ordinal and cardinal utility in micro-economics

Surely, this is about ordinal > preferential vs. cardinal > utility value in micro-economics.

The g/hits argument could be a 'cardinal' logical fallacy in this case, as that utilitarian Jeremy Bentham might have postulated.
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Cardinal utility gives a value of utility to different options. Ordinal utility just ranks in terms of preference.

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Thank you Adrain!
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ordinalism and cardinalism in microeconomics

See https://www.jstor.org/stable/30034333?seq=1#page_scan_tab_co... and many other sites that discuss ordinalism and cardinalism.
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Thank you!
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agree philgoddard : Ordinality and cardinality get way more hits, though, and that's what your own reference says.
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