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All Temporal Discounting Effects

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Paul Samuelson's 1937 discounted-utility model 1
All Temporal Discounting Effects
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1. Wikipedia: Time preference
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Such ideas were later formalized by Paul Samuelson in 'A Note on Measurement of Utility.' In this paper, he described a model wherein people want to maximize their utility over all future periods, with future utility being devalued exponentially from the present value.
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