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Environment, said: 'Tracking happiness through time alone is an idea with history: in the 19th century economists imagined a' hedonimeter ', a perfect happiness gauge, and psychologists have more recently run small-scale' experience sampling 'studies to see how mood varies with activity, time of day, and so on.
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Edgeworth expressed his belief in the eventual con - struction of a hedonimeter for measuring actual pleas - ures.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas NICHOLAS GEORGESCU-ROEGEN 1968
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Whatever the fault, the operational feasibility of the project has never moved beyond the paper-and-pencil stage and Ramsey's new vision of a psychogalvanom - eter had no better fate than Edgeworth's hedonimeter.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas NICHOLAS GEORGESCU-ROEGEN 1968
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