- In economics,
utility is a
measure of the
satisfaction that a
certain person has from a
certain state of the world. Over time, the term has been used in...
-
negativism "give all
weight to
disutility" and weak
negativism "give some
weight to
positive utility, but more
weight to
disutility." The most
commonly discussed...
- will
cause disutility on others. For example,
stealing something causes financial disutility,
bullying someone causes psychological disutility, and hurting...
- can be
measured as a
utility (or, rather, a
disutility). The
Small model of
scheduling has the
disutility of
schedule delay decrease linearly towards...
- pp. 105–127. Polinsky, A. Mitc**** & Shavell, Steven. (1997). On the
Disutility and
Discounting of
Imprisonment and the
Theory of Deterrence, NBER Working...
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voting methods, but is
preferred by
people who
interpret distance as
disutility. The
second table shows the
average distance (in
standard deviations)...
- "involuntary" unemployment: the
equality of the real wage to the
marginal disutility of
employment ...
realistically interpreted,
corresponds to the absence...
-
would be
willing to pay to
acquire it. Loss aversion,
where the
perceived disutility of
giving up an
object is
greater than the
utility ****ociated with acquiring...
-
satisfaction brought about by the
curtailment of leisure. To work
involves disutility."
Laziness in
American literature is
figured as a
fundamental problem...
- happiness.
Buddhist economists believe that as long as work is
considered a
disutility for
laborers and
laborers a
necessary evil for employers, the true potential...
