A small minority used a moral utilities framework, excluding activities that created or satisfied immoral utilities and evaluating utility against social goals such as national prosperity; this approach was never dominant and Carver was the last sampled economist to use it.
Evidence (3)
What counts as productive? Redefining ‘producers’ in economic discourse, 1890–1960 — Post-marginal-revolution contestation: utility expands the producer boundary, but competing frames persist
the framing of utility around a moral calculus was never dominant
https://doi.org/10.1080/03085147.2024.2404355#unit-5-p4
What counts as productive? Redefining ‘producers’ in economic discourse, 1890–1960 — Post-marginal-revolution contestation: utility expands the producer boundary, but competing frames persist
the framing of utility around a moral calculus was never dominant
https://doi.org/10.1080/03085147.2024.2404355#unit-5-p4
What counts as productive? Redefining ‘producers’ in economic discourse, 1890–1960 — Post-marginal-revolution contestation: utility expands the producer boundary, but competing frames persist
the framing of utility around a moral calculus was never dominant
https://doi.org/10.1080/03085147.2024.2404355#unit-5-p4
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