Choice, Preferences, and Procedures : : A Rational Choice Theoretic Approach / / Kotaro Suzumura.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016
• VerfasserIn: Suzumura, Kotaro,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2016]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (816 p.) :; 30 line illustrations, 3 tables
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; Original Sources --; Introduction --; Part I. Rational Choice as Rationalizable Choice --; Introduction to Part I --; Essay 1. Rational Choice and Revealed Preference --; Essay 2. Houthakker’s Axiom in the Theory of Rational Choice --; Essay 3. Suzumura-Consistent Rationalizability --; Essay 4. Revealed Preference and Choice under Uncertainty --; Part II. Social choice and Welfare Economics --; Introduction to Part II --; Essay 5. Impossibility Theorems without Collective Rationality --; Essay 6. Remarks on the Theory of Collective Choice --; Essay 7. Arrovian Aggregation in Economic Environments: How Much Should We Know about Indifference Surfaces? --; Essay 8. A Characterization of Suzumura-Consistent Collective Choice Rules --; Part III. Equity, Efficiency, and Intergenerational Justice --; Introduction to Part III --; Essay 9. On Pareto-Efficiency and the No-Envy Concept of Equity --; Essay 10. The Informational Basis of the Theory of Fair Allocation --; Essay 11. Ordering Infinite Utility Streams --; Essay 12. Multi-Profile Intergenerational Social Choice --; Part IV. Individual Rights and Social Welfare --; Introduction to Part IV --; Essay 13. On the Consistency of Libertarian Claims --; Essay 14. Liberal Paradox and the Voluntary Exchange of Rights Exercising --; Essay 15. Individual Rights Revisited --; Essay 16. Welfare, Rights, and Social Choice Procedure: A Perspective --; Part V. Consequentialism Versus Nonconsequentialism --; Introduction to Part V --; Essay 17. Consequences, Opportunities, and Procedures --; Essay 18. Characterizations of Consequentialism and Nonconsequentialism --; Essay 19. Consequences, Opportunities, and Generalized Consequentialism and Nonconsequentialism --; Essay 20. Welfarist-Consequentialism, Similarity of Attitudes, and Arrow’s General Impossibility Theorem --; Part VI. Competition, Cooperation, and Economic Welfare --; Introduction to Part VI --; Essay 21. Entry Barriers and Economic Welfare --; Essay 22. Oligopolistic Competition and Economic Welfare: A General Equilibrium Analysis of Entry Regulation and Tax-Subsidy Schemes --; Essay 23. Symmetric Cournot Oligopoly and Economic Welfare: A Synthesis --; Essay 24. Cooperative and Noncooperative R&D in an Oligopoly with Spillovers --; Part VII. Historically Speaking --; Introduction to Part VII --; Essay 25. Introduction to Social Choice and Welfare --; Essay 26. Paretian Welfare Judgments and Bergsonian Social Choice --; Essay 27. Welfare Economics beyond Welfarist Consequentialism --; Essay 28. Informational Bases of Welfare Economics, Transcendental Institutionalism, and the Comparative Assessment Approach --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780674726307; 9783110638585
• DOI: 10.4159/9780674726307
• Access: restricted access
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• Statement of Responsibility: Kotaro Suzumura.

Social choice theory critically assesses and rationally designs economic mechanisms for improving human well-being. Kotaro Suzumura—one of the world’s foremost thinkers in social choice theory and welfare economics—fuses abstract ideas with real-world economies to examine foundational issues of normative economics and collective decision making.