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I. Preference Orderings and Utility Theory -- 1. Relational Systems -- 2. Preference Relations -- 3. Some Remarks on Utility Theory -- 4. Linear Inequalities -- II. Ordinal Utility -- 1. Some Classical Representation Theorems -- 2. Lexicographic Utility -- 3. Utility Theories with Respect to n?-Sets -- 4. Ultraproducts and Ultrapowers -- 5. Approximating an r*-Valued Utility Function by a Real Valued Function -- 6. Non-Standard Utility Functions Always Exist -- 7. Utility Functions for Partial Orderings -- III. On Numerical Relational Systems -- 1. First-Order Languages -- 2. Some Preliminary Considerations -- 3. Universal and Homogeneous Relational Systems -- 4. Saturated Relational Systems -- IV. Utility Theories for More Structured Empirical Data -- 1. Some Remarks -- 2. The Empirical Status of Axioms -- 3. Utility Theories which are Axiomatizable in an Ordinary First Order Language -- 4. Extensive Utility -- 5. Conjoint Measurement of Utilities -- 6. On Certain Mean Systems -- V. On Utility Spaces, The Theory of Games and the Realization of Comparative Probability Relations -- 1. A Generalization of the Von Neumann/Morgenstern Utility Theory -- 2. Non-Standard Utilities in Game Theory -- 3. Some Aspects of the Realization of Comparative Probability Relations -- Appendix I. Ordinal and Cardinal Numbers -- Appendix II. Some Basic Facts about Filters and Ultrafilters -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects.

1. Basic concepts and principles of political economy / Friedrich Benedikt Wilhelm von Hermann -- 2. Price determination through desire or demand / Friedrich Benedikt Wilhelm von Hermann -- 3. Extract from the second letter to Adolphe Quetelet / Karl Heinrich Rau -- 4. The valuation of national wealth (1841) / Karl Heinrich Rau -- 5. Bases of price determination (1841) -- Karl Heinrich Rau -- 6. The valuation of national wealth (1847) / Karl Heinrich Rau -- 7. The national economics of the present and future / Bruno Hildebrand -- 8. The theory of value : for the jubilee of the Imperial University of Dorpat 12-13 December 1852 : commemorative volume of the department of history and philology -- Eberhard Friedlander -- 9. The theory of value in national economics / Karl Knies -- 10. Value / Wilhelm Roscher -- 11. The ethical side of the theory of value in national economics / Albert Eberhard Friedrich Schaffle -- 12. The chapter on value / Otto Michaelis -- 13. On the theory of value / Hermann Roesler.

The main purpose of the Handbook of Utility Theory is to make more widely available some recent developments in the area. The editors selected a list of topics that seemed ripe enough to be covered by review articles. Then they invited contributions from researchers whose expert work had come to their attention. So the list of topics and contributors is largely the editors' responsibility. Each contributor's chapter has been refereed, and revised according to the referees' remarks. Whereas Volume I of the Handbook of Utility Theory is largely concentrated on basic theory, the present volume is concerned with extensions and applications to other branches of economic theory. Taken together, these first two volumes contain all the purely theoretical material that the editors planned to cover. The chapters on experimental and empirical research on utility and the chapters on the history of utility theory will appear in Volume III