Interpersonal Utility Comparisons is a theoretical construct in welfare economics and social choice theory that enables the evaluation and aggregation of individual welfare levels across different persons by assigning meaningful numerical representations to subjective utilities, thereby permitting ethical and policy judgments about social welfare based on the relative well-being of individuals.
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Interpersonal Comparisons Of Utility
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Some Uses of Happiness Data in Economics
Rafael Di Tella, Robert MacCulloch · The Journal of Economic Perspectives · 2006 · 900 citations · Full text
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