Back to matchesWe found a matchYour institution may have access to this item. Find your institution then sign in to continue.TitleEXISTENCE OF A CONTINUOUS UTILITY FUNCTION: AN ELEMENTARY PROOF.AuthorsJaffray, Jean-YvesAbstractDiscusses the conditions for the existence of a continuous utility function on a preordered topological space. Construction of a continuous utility function directly; Definitions and notations used; Application to utility functions.SubjectsUTILITY functions; CONTINUOUS functions; TOPOLOGY; SET theory; MATHEMATICAL models; NUMERICAL analysis; MATHEMATICAL analysis; SPACES of measures; MATHEMATICSPublicationEconometrica, 1975, Vol 43, Issue 5/6, p981ISSN0012-9682Publication typeArticleDOI10.2307/1911340