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

首先，我们考察了Georgescu-Roegen的有趣的思想，这些思想还没有得到充分的检验，但应该从效用理论的进一步发展及其对可持续发展的重要性方面进行充分的研究：(1)Volterra悖论；(2)需要的等级；(3)词典顺序；(4)可比性和顺序主义谬误；(5)货币的边际效用；(6)欲望的不可约性原则；(7)方向选择和不可逆性；(8)非偏好方向的持久性原则；(9)遗传假设；(10)效用的可测性；(11)传递性和可积性；(12)Pareto最初提出的随机二元选择。我们的研究有两个主要结果：(1)讨论了饱和区域是凸闭区域的一般情况。在我们的饱和区，我们表明我们不能获得适用于估计…的一般效用指数新古典主义经济学家通常采用的自然资源和环境服务。(2)我们证明了字典序排序不满足线性假设，线性假设是一个集合是线性连续序列的三个必要条件之一。这三个公设是：(1)德德金德公设；(2)密度公设；(3)线性公设。我们认为，提供给人类的大部分环境服务都属于这一类别的“商品”，尤其是生物多样性。因此，将这些服务包含在云服务中可能会产生错误的信息。我们提交了两篇论文：1.Mayumi，K.，《消费者选择理论和环境价值的基础》，Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen的科学工作，法国斯特拉斯伯奇，1998.2-11-7。Georgescu-Roegen的消费者选择理论及其与可持续性问题的相关性“。第五届ISEE(国际生态经济学会)会议，超越增长：可持续发展的制度和政策，1998年11月15日至18日，智利圣地亚哥。较少

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