The handbook of rational and social choice : an overview of new foundations and applications /

This volume provides an overview of issues arising in work on the foundations of decision theory & social choice. The collection will be of value to researchers in economics with interests in utility or welfare, but also to any social scientist or philosopher interested in theories of rationalit...

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Corporate Author: Oxford University Press
Other Authors: Anand, Paul, Pattanaik, Prasanta K., Puppe, Clemens, 1960-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
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Table of Contents:
  • Expected utility theory / Simon Grant and Timothy Van Zandt
  • Rank-dependent utility / Mohammed Abdellaoui
  • Applications of non-expected utility / Han Bleichrodt and Ulrich Schmidt
  • Ambiguity / Jurgen Eichberger and David Kelsey
  • The normative status of the independence principle / Edward F. McClennen
  • Rationality of intransitive preference : foundations for the modern view / Paul Anand
  • Dutch book arguments / Alan Hájek
  • Experimental tests of rationality / Daniel Read
  • State-dependent utility / Edi Karni
  • Choice over time / Paola Manzini and Marco Mariotti
  • Imitation and learning / Carlos Alós-Ferrer and Karl H. Schlag
  • Diversity / Klaus Nehring and Clemens Puppe
  • Limits of utilitarianism as the ethical basis of public action / Prasanta K. Pattanaik
  • Consequentialism and non-consequentialism : the axiomatic approach / Kotaro Suzumura and Yongsheng Xu
  • Freedom of choice / Keith Dowding and Martin van Hees
  • Responsibility / Marc Fleurbaey
  • Equality and priority / Bertil Tungodden
  • Rawlsian justice / Fabienne Peter
  • Judgment aggregation / Christian List and Clemens Puppe
  • Population ethics / Charles Blackorby, Walter Bossert, and David Donaldson
  • Distributive justice : an overview of experimental evidence / Wulf Gaertner
  • Social choice in health and health care / Aki Tsuchiya and John Miyamoto
  • The capabilities approach / Erik Schokkaert.