With a lot of morally intuitive appeal, Bentham's idea is the following, the right thing to do; the just thing to do is to maximize utility.

充满了道德上的直观感染力，其观点如下，正确的选择，公正的选择,就是最大化功利。

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That's what it means to maximize utility.

这就是所谓功利最大化。

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What finance theory is based on-- and much of economics is based on-- the idea that people want to maximize the expected utility of their wealth.

金融学理论建立在,并且很多经济学的都是建立在,人们希望能使自己对,财富的期望效用最大化这一基础上

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