Reply to Ted and Brad

[Brad DeLong]

>Are you saying in your last paragraph that utiility can be measured very
>roughly  by pleasure and pain? If you can know that watching my children
>starve is more painful to me than the Hoffman Farm etc., is pleasurable to
>you then you must be able to make interpersonal comparisons of utility. I
>thought most economists deny this.

I would say, rather, that most economists would say that if you are 
making interpersonal comparisons of utility you are not speaking as 
an economist--but rather as something else. We do make interpersonal 
comparisons of utility every day, after all...

Brad DeLong