Collective Choice and Social Welfare : : An Expanded Edition / / Amartya Sen.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
• VerfasserIn: Sen, Amartya,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2017]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (432 p.)

Originally published in 1970, this classic study has been recognized for its groundbreaking role in integrating economics and ethics, and for its influence in opening up new areas of research in social choice, including aggregative assessment. It has also had a large influence on international organizations, including the United Nations, notably in its work on human development. The book showed that the “impossibility theorems” in social choice theory—led by the pioneering work of Kenneth Arrow—do not negate the possibility of reasoned and democratic social choice. Sen’s ideas about social choice, welfare economics, inequality, poverty, and human rights have continued to evolve since the book’s first appearance. This expanded edition preserves the text of the original while presenting eleven new chapters of fresh arguments and results. “Expanding on the early work of Condorcet, Pareto, Arrow, and others, Sen provides rigorous mathematical argumentation on the merits of voting mechanisms…For those with graduate training, it will serve as a frequently consulted reference and a necessity on one’s book shelf.” —J. F. O’Connell, Choice

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface (1970) -- New Preface (2017) -- Acknowledgements -- New Introduction (2017) -- Collective Choice and Social Welfare (1970) -- 1. Introduction -- 1*. Preference Relations -- 2. Unanimity -- 2*. Collective Choice Rules and Pareto Comparisons -- 3. Collective Rationality -- 3*. Social Welfare Functions -- 4. Choice Versus Orderings -- 4*. Social Decision Functions -- 5. Values and Choice -- 5*. Anonymity, Neutrality and Responsiveness -- 6. Conflicts and Dilemmas -- 6*. The Liberal Paradox -- 7. Interpersonal Aggregation and Comparability -- 7*. Aggregation Quasi- Orderings -- 8. Cardinality With or Without Comparability -- 8*. Bargains and Social Welfare Functions -- 9. Equity and Justice -- 9*. Impersonality and Collective Quasi- Orderings -- 10. Majority Choice and Related Systems -- 10*. Restricted Preferences and Rational Choice -- 11. Theory and Practice -- Collective Choice and Social Welfare (2017) -- A1. Enlightenment and Impossibility -- A1*. Social Preference -- A2. Rationality and Consistency -- A2*. Problems of Social Choice -- A3. Justice and Equity -- A3*. Social Welfare Evaluation -- A4. Democracy and Public Engagement -- A4*. Votes and Majorities -- A5. The Idea of Rights -- A5*. Rights and Social Choice -- A6. Reasoning and Social Decisions -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Subject Index -- Name Index