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Interpersonal comparison of utility (pdf 138k)
Abstract
’Tis vain to talk of adding quantities which after the addition will continue to be as distinct as they were before; one man’s happiness will never be another man’s happiness: a gain to one man is no gain to another: you might as well pretend to add 20 apples to 20 pearsMy notes
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