Georgescu-Reogen's Consumer Choice Theory and Its Relevance to Sustainability Issues

首先，我们考察了Georgescu-Roegen的一些有趣的观点，这些观点虽然没有得到充分的检验，但应该从效用理论的进一步理论发展以及它们对可持续性的重要性方面进行充分的研究：（1）沃尔泰拉悖论;（2）需求层次;（3）词典排序;（4）可比性和排序谬误;（5）货币的边际效用;（6）需求不可约性与需求可约性原则;（7）方向选择与不可逆性;（8）非偏好方向的坚持原则;（9）遗传假设;（10）效用的可测性;（11）传递性与可积性;（12）随机二元选择最初是由帕累托设想的。(1)我们讨论了饱和区域是凸闭区域的一般情况。在我们的饱和区域，我们表明，我们不能获得适用于评估的一般效用指数。 ...更多信息 自然资源和环境服务的概念通常被新古典经济学家采用。(2)我们证明了字典序不满足线性公设，线性公设是一个集合是线性连续序列的三个必要公设之一。这三个公设是：（1）戴德金公设;（2）密度公设;（3）线性公设。我们认为，提供给人类的大多数环境服务都属于这类“商品”，特别是生物多样性。因此，包括这些服务的CVM可能会产生错误的信息。Mayumi，K.“消费者选择理论与环境价值评估的基础”，Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen的科学著作，斯特拉斯堡，法国，1998年11月6-7日。Mayumi，K. Georgescu-Roegen的消费者选择理论及其与可持续发展问题的相关性。第五届两年一次的国际生态经济学会会议，超越增长：促进可持续性的机构和政策，智利圣地亚哥，1998年11月15日至18日。少

First of all, we examine Georgescu-Roegen's interesting ideas which have not received full exam-ination, but which should be fully investigated in terms of the further theoretical development of utility theory as well as for their importance to sustainability : (1) Volterra paradox ; (2) hierarchy of wants ; (3) lexicographic ordering ; (4) comparability and the ordinalist fallacy ; (5) marginal utility of money ; (6) principles of the irreducible of wants versus commensurability of wants ; (7) directional choice and irreversibilities ; (8) principle of perseverance of nonpreference direction ; (9) the heredity postulate ; (10) measurability of utility ; (11) transitivity and integrability ; (12) stochastic binary choice envisioned originally by Pareto.There are two main results from our research.(1) we discuss the general case of a saturation region which is a convex closed area. In our saturation region, we show that we cannot obtain the general utility index applicable to the evalua … More tion of natural resources and environmental services usually adopted by neoclassical economists.(2) we show that lexicographic ordering does not satisfy the postulate of linearity, which is one of the three necessary postulates for a set to be a linear continuous series. These three postulates are (1) Dedekind's postulate ; (2) Postulate of Density ; (3) Postulate of Linearity. We argue that most of the environmental services supplied to humans belong to this category of "commodity", especially biological diversity. Thus, inclusion of these services in CVM could produce erroneous information.We presented two papers :1. Mayumi, K."The Foundations of Consumer Choice Theory and Environmental Valuation", Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen's Scientific Work, Strasbourge, France, Nov. 6-7, 1998.2. Mayumi, K."Georgescu-Roegen's Consumer Choice Theory and Its Relevance to Sustainability Issue". The Fifth Biennial ISEE (International Society for Ecological Economics) Conference, Beyond Growth : Institutions and Policies for Sustainability, Santiago, Chile, Nov. 15-18, 1998. Less