Collective Choice And Social Welfare

Author : Amartya Sen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 641 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780674919211

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Collective Choice and Social Welfare by Amartya Sen Pdf

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

Author : A.K. Sen
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781483294575

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Collective Choice and Social Welfare by A.K. Sen Pdf

This book is concerned with the study of collective preference, in particular with the relationship between the objectives of social action and the preferences and aspirations of society's members. Professor Sen's approach is based on the assumption that the problem of collective choice cannot be satisfactorily discussed within the confines of economics. While collective choice forms a crucial aspect of economics, the subject pertains also to political science, the theory of the state, and to the theory of decision procedures. The author has therefore used material from these disciplines, plus philosophical aspects from ethics and the theory of justice.

Author : Amartya Sen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Political Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105001917785

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Collective Choice and Social Welfare by Amartya Sen Pdf

Textbook on the relationship between the objectives of social policy and preferences and aspirations of members of society, with particular reference to collective decision making in respect of social welfare. Bibliography pp. 201 to 218 and statistical tables.

Author : Amartya K. Sen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:476400664

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Collective Choice and Social Welfare by Amartya K. Sen Pdf

Author : Constanze Binder,Giulio Codognato,Miriam Teschl,Yongsheng Xu
Publisher : Springer
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2015-04-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783662464397

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Individual and Collective Choice and Social Welfare by Constanze Binder,Giulio Codognato,Miriam Teschl,Yongsheng Xu Pdf

The papers in this volume explore various issues relating to theories of individual and collective choice, and theories of social welfare. The topics include individual and collective rationality, motivation and intention in economics, coercion, public goods, climate change, and voting theory. The book offers an excellent overview over latest research in these fields.

Author : Kotaro Suzumura
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521122554

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Rational Choice, Collective Decisions, and Social Welfare by Kotaro Suzumura Pdf

An examination of the phenomenon of social cooperation failure, even amongst a group of rational individuals.

Author : Amartya Kumar Sen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:246060871

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Collective Choice and Social Welfare by Amartya Kumar Sen Pdf

Author : Eric Maskin,Amartya Sen
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780231153287

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The Arrow Impossibility Theorem by Eric Maskin,Amartya Sen Pdf

Kenneth Arrow's pathbreaking Òimpossibility theoremÓ was a watershed in the history of welfare economics, voting theory, and collective choice, demonstrating that there is no voting rule that satisfies the four desirable axioms of decisiveness, consensus, nondictatorship, and independence. In this book, Amartya Sen and Eric Maskin explore the implications of ArrowÕs theorem. Sen considers its ongoing utility, exploring the theoremÕs value and limitations in relation to recent research on social reasoning, while Maskin discusses how to design a voting rule that gets us closer to the idealÑgiven that achieving the ideal is impossible. The volume also contains a contextual introduction by social choice scholar Prasanta K. Pattanaik and commentaries from Joseph E. Stiglitz and Kenneth Arrow himself, as well as essays by Sen and Maskin outlining the mathematical proof and framework behind their assertions.

Author : Amartya Sen
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0674127781

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Choice, Welfare and Measurement by Amartya Sen Pdf

"Choice, Welfare and Measurement contains many of Amartya Sen's most important contributions to economic analysis and methods, including papers on individual and social choice, preference and rationality, and aggregation and economic measurement. A substantial introductory essay interrelates his diverse concerns, and also analyzes discussions generated by the original papers, focusing on the underlying issues."--P. [4] of cover.

Author : Marc Fleurbaey,François Maniquet
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2011-06-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781139498777

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A Theory of Fairness and Social Welfare by Marc Fleurbaey,François Maniquet Pdf

The definition and measurement of social welfare have been a vexed issue for the past century. This book makes a constructive, easily applicable proposal and suggests how to evaluate the economic situation of a society in a way that gives priority to the worse-off and that respects each individual's preferences over his or her own consumption, work, leisure and so on. This approach resonates with the current concern to go 'beyond the GDP' in the measurement of social progress. Compared to technical studies in welfare economics, this book emphasizes constructive results rather than paradoxes and impossibilities, and shows how one can start from basic principles of efficiency and fairness and end up with concrete evaluations of policies. Compared to more philosophical treatments of social justice, this book is more precise about the definition of social welfare and reaches conclusions about concrete policies and institutions only after a rigorous derivation from clearly stated principles.

Author : Wulf Gaertner
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0199297517

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A Primer in Social Choice Theory by Wulf Gaertner Pdf

This introductory text explores the theory of social choice. Written as a primer suitable for advanced undergraduates and graduates, this text will act as an important starting point for students grappling with the complexities of social choice theory. Rigorous yet accessible, this primer avoids the use of technical language and provides an up-to-date discussion of this rapidly developing field. This is the first in a series of texts published in association with the LSE.

Author : Amartya Sen
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2011-05-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780674060470

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The Idea of Justice by Amartya Sen Pdf

Presents an analysis of what justice is, the transcendental theory of justice and its drawbacks, and a persuasive argument for a comparative perspective on justice that can guide us in the choice between alternatives.

Author : Herve Moulin
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2004-08-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0262633116

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Fair Division and Collective Welfare by Herve Moulin Pdf

The concept of fair division is as old as civil society itself. Aristotle's "equal treatment of equals" was the first step toward a formal definition of distributive fairness. The concept of collective welfare, more than two centuries old, is a pillar of modern economic analysis. Reflecting fifty years of research, this book examines the contribution of modern microeconomic thinking to distributive justice. Taking the modern axiomatic approach, it compares normative arguments of distributive justice and their relation to efficiency and collective welfare. The book begins with the epistemological status of the axiomatic approach and the four classic principles of distributive justice: compensation, reward, exogenous rights, and fitness. It then presents the simple ideas of equal gains, equal losses, and proportional gains and losses. The book discusses three cardinal interpretations of collective welfare: Bentham's "utilitarian" proposal to maximize the sum of individual utilities, the Nash product, and the egalitarian leximin ordering. It also discusses the two main ordinal definitions of collective welfare: the majority relation and the Borda scoring method. The Shapley value is the single most important contribution of game theory to distributive justice. A formula to divide jointly produced costs or benefits fairly, it is especially useful when the pattern of externalities renders useless the simple ideas of equality and proportionality. The book ends with two versatile methods for dividing commodities efficiently and fairly when only ordinal preferences matter: competitive equilibrium with equal incomes and egalitarian equivalence. The book contains a wealth of empirical examples and exercises.

Author : Amartya Sen
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 756 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2004-03-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0674013514

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Rationality and Freedom by Amartya Sen Pdf

Rationality and freedom are among the most profound and contentious concepts in philosophy and the social sciences. In this, the first of two volumes, Amartya Sen brings clarity and insight to these difficult issues.

Author : Charles Blackorby,Walter Bossert,David J. Donaldson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2005-08-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521825512

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Population Issues in Social Choice Theory, Welfare Economics, and Ethics by Charles Blackorby,Walter Bossert,David J. Donaldson Pdf

This book explores how different ideas of the common good may be compared, contrasted and ranked.