Collective choice and social welfare /
"Can the values which individual members of society attach to different alternatives be aggregated into values for society as a whole, in a way that is both fair and theoretically sound? Is the majority principle a workable rule for making decisions? How should income inequality be measured? Wh...
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
Harvard University Press,
[2017]
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| Edition: | Expanded edition. |
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- Preface (1970)
- New preface (2017)
- New introduction (2017)
- Collective choice and social welfare (1970). Introduction
- Preference relations
- Unanimity
- Collective choice rules and pareto comparisons
- Collective rationality
- Social welfare functions
- Choice versus orderings
- Social decision functions
- Values and choice
- Anonymity, neutrality and responsiveness
- Conflicts and dilemmas
- The liberal paradox
- Interpersonal aggregation and comparability
- Aggregation quasi-orderings
- Cardinality with or without comparability
- Bargains and social welfare functions
- Equity and justice
- Interpersonality and collective quasi-orderings
- Majority choice and related systems
- Restricted preferences and rational choice
- Theory and practice
- Collective choice and social welfare (2017). Enlightenment and impossibility
- Social preference
- Rationality and consistency
- Problems of social choice
- Justice and equity
- Social welfare evaluation
- Democracy and public engagement
- Votes and majorities
- The idea of rights
- Rights and social choice
- Reasoning and social decisions.
