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The 15 pages that link to Ordinal utility, each with the reason it gives.

• UtilityRelated: For ordinary preference comparisons, utility numbers need preserve order, not measured satisfaction.

• Social welfare functionCompared with: Ordinal information alone cannot support every welfare comparison or aggregation rule.

• Social choice theoryNarrower topic: Many voting analyses use rankings alone, without treating preference intensity as measurable.

• Marginal UtilityCompared with: Modern consumer theory can analyze marginal trade-offs without treating satisfaction as objectively measurable.

• Utility functionRelated: Ordinary consumer utility functions are interpreted this way.

• Revealed preferenceRelated: The approach offered a way to study rankings without relying on measurable utility.

• Indifference curveRelated: The curve captures equal ranking; its utility number has no required absolute meaning.

• Vilfredo ParetoRelated: Pareto helped establish preference ranking as a foundation for economic analysis.

• MarginalismRelated: It recasts consumer choice without requiring utility to be measured cardinally.

• Subjective theory of valueRelated: It shows that subjective value can guide choices without a common numerical scale.

• Dominant strategyRelated: Dominance depends on payoff rankings, not on the size of payoff gaps.

• Marginal revolutionCompared with: Later economists could preserve choice-based analysis while rejecting measurable cardinal utility.

• Gibbard–Satterthwaite theoremRelated: The theorem relies on rankings, not on comparable utility magnitudes.

• Hermann Heinrich GossenCompared with: Gossen’s framework treated utility quantitatively, unlike later ordinal approaches to consumer choice.

• Liberal paradoxRelated: Sen’s result concerns preference orderings, not interpersonal comparisons of utility levels.