Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Utility theory of value
As I've said above, the article is a -fork.Historically, utility theories of value seek to explain the price of a good or service in terms of its ''usefulness'' (with some notion of ''pleasure'' often taken as a relevant measure of usefulness), as opposed to cost-based theories, which explain price in terms of costs of production (''eg'' labor input).  The modern utility theory of value specifically looks at the ''marginal'' utility to explain price; you can find this discussed in “Marginalism” (with fuller explication of the concept of marginal utility at “Marginal utility”). The creator of the article in question has evidently decided that he's developed some special insight, which involves decomposing “utility” into four parts — “temporal utility”, “geospatial utility”, “form utility”, and “cost utility”.  This division involves some wholesale, idiosyncratic redefinition of “utility”, as for example it isn't normally ''meaningful'' to speak of the ''usefulness'' of ''when'' something is delivered without otherwise explaining what the ____ the ''something'' is. (Does a camel in the Sahara at noon next Tuesday have the same time-usefulness as a pickle in Antarctica?)There is no |“notable” contemporary utility of value other than the ''marginal'' utility theory; it would be ''good'' to flesh-out the historical section of “Marginal utility” with more discussion of the proto-marginalists — utility theorists who didn't quite make it to marginalism — and they might even merit an joint article of their own (some of them already have individual articles).  But someone seeking to learn about utility theories of value can be best served by an improved version of “Utility
— User:SlamDiego, 00:45, 11 October 2008 (UTC)
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Cited policy: WP:OR||WP:NOTE (Wikipedia:No original research)