My interest in non-Archimedean utility theory and the problems related
to it was aroused by discussions which I have had with Professors Werner
Leinfellner and Günter Menges. On the occasion of the Second Inter-
national Game Theory Workshop, Berkeley, 1970, which was sponsored by
the National Science Foundation, I had the opportunity to report about a
result on non-standard utilities. Work on this subject continued when I
was a research assistant of Professor Günter Menges at the Uni- versity
of Heidelberg. The present mono graph is essentially a translation of my
habilitation thesis which was accepted on February 15, 1973 by the
Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences at the Universtity of
Heidelberg. On translating my thesis I took up some suggestions made by
ProfessorWerner Böge from the Faculty of Mathematics at the Uni- versity
of Heidelberg. Through lack of time many of his ideas have not been
taken into consideration but I hope to do so in a future paper. The
first chapter should be considered as a short introduction to pref-
erence orderings and to the notion of a utility theory proposed by Dana
Scott and Patrick Suppes. In the second chapter I discuss in some detail
various problems of ordinal utility theory. Except when introducing
non-standard models of the reals no use is made of concepts of model
theory. This is done in deference to those readers who do not wish to be
troubled by formal languages and model theory.
