Retrospectives: Edgeworth's Hedonimeter and the Quest to Measure Utility

By D. Colander. 2007

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, General Decision Sciences, History and Philosophy of Science

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Citations in the corpus

• The Economics of Happiness (2021, background): “Francis Edgeworth even envisioned a “hedonometer” – a device measuring physiological manifestations of pleasure and pain, much like a thermometer measures temperature (Colander, 2007).”