======================= HES POSTING =================== Before the term "utility", and in the same economic meaning, the term "usefulness" was employed. I have met it, in a paper of Joplin (An Essay on Money and Bullion, 1718), prefiguring the Walras's value theory. Before that, it's possible to find the term "utility" in some essays of Bacon, but not (as for as I remember) in an economic meaning. Regards Romain Kroes ============ FOOTER TO HES POSTING ============ For information, send the message "info HES" to [log in to unmask]