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Utility representation of continuous preferences

A. F. Beardon
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A. F. Beardon: University of Cambridge, 16 Mill Lane, Cambridge CB2 1SB, ENGLAND

Economic Theory, 1997, vol. 10, issue 2, 369-372

Abstract: By generalising the Arrow-Hahn approach, we give new conditions under which a preference relation on a metric space can be represented by a continuous utility function.

Date: 1997
Note: Received: December 11, 1995; revised version July 29, 1996
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