The existence of utility functions for weakly continuous preferences on a Banach space

Abstract In this note we prove that the weak topology of a Banach space has the Continuous Representability Property which means that every (weakly) continuous total preorder defined on a Banach space can be represented by a weakly continuous utility function. This shows that weak topologies are perfect to look for continuous utility functions that represent preferences on infinite-dimensional commodity spaces.

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