Handbook Of Social Choice And Welfare

Author : Kenneth Joseph Arrow,Amartya Sen,Kōtarō Suzumura
Publisher : Gulf Professional Publishing
Page : 686 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Social choice
ISBN : 0444829148

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Handbook of Social Choice and Welfare by Kenneth Joseph Arrow,Amartya Sen,Kōtarō Suzumura Pdf

The Handbook of Social Choice and Welfare presents, in two volumes, essays on past and on-going work in social choice theory and welfare economics. The first volume consists of four parts. In Part 1 (Arrovian Impossibility Theorems), various aspects of Arrovian general impossibility theorems, illustrated by the simple majority cycle first identified by Condorcet, are expounded and evaluated. It also provides a critical survey of the work on different escape routes from impossibility results of this kind. In Part 2 (Voting Schemes and Mechanisms), the operation and performance of voting schemes and cost-sharing mechanisms are examined axiomatically, and some aspects of the modern theory of incentives and mechanism design are expounded and surveyed. In Part 3 (structure of social choice rules), the positional rules of collective decision-making (the origin of which can be traced back to a seminal proposal by Borda), the game-theoretic aspects of voting in committees, and the implications of making use of interpersonal comparisons of welfare (with or without cardinal measurability) are expounded, and the status of utilitarianism as a theory of justice is critically examined. It also provides an analytical survey of the foundations of measurement of inequality and poverty. In order to place these broad issues (as well as further issues to be discussed in the second volume of the Handbook) in perspective, Kotaro Suzumura has written an extensive introduction, discussing the historical background of social choice theory, the vistas opened by Arrow's Social Choice and Individual Values, the famous "socialist planning" controversy, and the theoretical and practical significance of social choice theory. The primary purpose of this Handbook is to provide an accessible introduction to the current state of the art in social choice theory and welfare economics. The expounded theory has a strong and constructive message for pursuing human well-being and facilitating collective decision-making. *Advances economists' understanding of recent advances in social choice and welfare *Distills and applies research to a wide range of social issues *Provides analytical material for evaluating new scholarship *Offers consolidated reviews and analyses of scholarship in a framework that encourages synthesis--

Author : Kenneth Joseph Arrow
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1076074851

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Handbook of Social Choice and Welfare by Kenneth Joseph Arrow Pdf

DescriptionDevelops many subjects from Volume 1 (2002) while introducing new themes in welfare economics and social choice theory Features four sections: Foundations, Developments of the Basic Arrovian Schemes, Fairness and Rights, and Voting and Manipulation Appeals to readers who seek introductions to writings on human well-being and collective decision-making Presents a spectrum of material, from initial insights and basic functions to important variations on basic schemes

Author : Kenneth Joseph Arrow,Kotaro Suzumura
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 962 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Social choice
ISBN : OCLC:664681272

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Handbook of Social Choice and Welfare by Kenneth Joseph Arrow,Kotaro Suzumura Pdf

Author : Paul Anand,Prasanta Pattanaik,Clemens Puppe
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2009-01-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780199290420

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The Handbook of Rational and Social Choice by Paul Anand,Prasanta Pattanaik,Clemens Puppe Pdf

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

Author : Felix Brandt,Vincent Conitzer,Ulle Endriss,Jérôme Lang,Ariel D. Procaccia
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 553 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107060432

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Handbook of Computational Social Choice by Felix Brandt,Vincent Conitzer,Ulle Endriss,Jérôme Lang,Ariel D. Procaccia Pdf

A comprehensive survey of computational aspects of collective decisions for graduate students, researchers, and professionals in computer science and economics.

Author : Jac C. Heckelman,Nicholas R. Miller
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2015-12-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781783470730

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Handbook of Social Choice and Voting by Jac C. Heckelman,Nicholas R. Miller Pdf

This Handbook provides an overview of interdisciplinary research related to social choice and voting that is intended for a broad audience. Expert contributors from various fields present critical summaries of the existing literature, including intuitive explanations of technical terminology and well-known theorems, suggesting new directions for research.

Author : Matthew D. Adler,Marc Fleurbaey
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 848 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-21
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780199325832

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The Oxford Handbook of Well-Being and Public Policy by Matthew D. Adler,Marc Fleurbaey Pdf

What are the methodologies for assessing and improving governmental policy in light of well-being? The Oxford Handbook of Well-Being and Public Policy provides a comprehensive, interdisciplinary treatment of this topic. The contributors draw from welfare economics, moral philosophy, and psychology and are leading scholars in these fields. The Handbook includes thirty chapters divided into four Parts. Part I covers the full range of methodologies for evaluating governmental policy and assessing societal condition-including both the leading approaches in current use by policymakers and academics (such as GDP, cost-benefit analysis, cost-effectiveness analysis, inequality and poverty metrics, and the concept of the "social welfare function"), and emerging techniques. Part II focuses on the nature of well-being. What, most fundamentally, determines whether an individual life is better or worse for the person living it? Her happiness? Her preference-satisfaction? Her attainment of various "objective goods"? Part III addresses the measurement of well-being and the thorny topic of interpersonal comparisons. How can we construct a meaningful scale of individual welfare, which allows for comparisons of well-being levels and differences, both within one individual's life, and across lives? Finally, Part IV reviews the major challenges to designing governmental policy around individual well-being.

Author : Allan M. Feldman,Roberto Serrano
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2006-06-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780387293684

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Welfare Economics and Social Choice Theory by Allan M. Feldman,Roberto Serrano Pdf

This book covers the main topics of welfare economics — general equilibrium models of exchange and production, Pareto optimality, un certainty, externalities and public goods — and some of the major topics of social choice theory — compensation criteria, fairness, voting. Arrow's Theorem, and the theory of implementation. The underlying question is this: "Is a particular economic or voting mechanism good or bad for society?" Welfare economics is mainly about whether the market mechanism is good or bad; social choice is largely about whether voting mechanisms, or other more abstract mechanisms, can improve upon the results of the market. This second edition updates the material of the first, written by Allan Feldman. It incorporates new sections to existing first-edition chapters, and it includes several new ones. Chapters 4, 6, 11, 15 and 16 are new, added in this edition. The first edition of the book grew out of an undergraduate welfare economics course at Brown University. The book is intended for the undergraduate student who has some prior familiarity with microeconomics. However, the book is also useful for graduate students and professionals, economists and non-economists, who want an overview of welfare and social choice results unburdened by detail and mathematical complexity. Welfare economics and social choice both probably suffer from ex cessively technical treatments in professional journals and monographs.

Author : Rafael Wittek,Tom A.B. Snijders,Victor Nee
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 625 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2013-06-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780804785501

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The Handbook of Rational Choice Social Research by Rafael Wittek,Tom A.B. Snijders,Victor Nee Pdf

The Handbook of Rational Choice Social Research offers the first comprehensive overview of how the rational choice paradigm can inform empirical research within the social sciences. This landmark collection highlights successful empirical applications across a broad array of disciplines, including sociology, political science, economics, history, and psychology. Taking on issues ranging from financial markets and terrorism to immigration, race relations, and emotions, and a huge variety of other phenomena, rational choice proves a useful tool for theory- driven social research. Each chapter uses a rational choice framework to elaborate on testable hypotheses and then apply this to empirical research, including experimental research, survey studies, ethnographies, and historical investigations. Useful to students and scholars across the social sciences, this handbook will reinvigorate discussions about the utility and versatility of the rational choice approach, its key assumptions, and tools.

Author : Francis G. Castles,Stephan Leibfried,Jane Lewis,Herbert Obinger,Christopher Pierson
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 908 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2012-09-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780191628283

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The Oxford Handbook of the Welfare State by Francis G. Castles,Stephan Leibfried,Jane Lewis,Herbert Obinger,Christopher Pierson Pdf

The Oxford Handbook of the Welfare State is the authoritative and definitive guide to the contemporary welfare state. In a volume consisting of nearly fifty newly-written chapters, a broad range of the world's leading scholars offer a comprehensive account of everything one needs to know about the modern welfare state. The book is divided into eight sections. It opens with three chapters that evaluate the philosophical case for (and against) the welfare state. Surveys of the welfare state 's history and of the approaches taken to its study are followed by four extended sections, running to some thirty-five chapters in all, which offer a comprehensive and in-depth survey of our current state of knowledge across the whole range of issues that the welfare state embraces. The first of these sections looks at inputs and actors (including the roles of parties, unions, and employers), the impact of gender and religion, patterns of migration and a changing public opinion, the role of international organisations and the impact of globalisation. The next two sections cover policy inputs (in areas such as pensions, health care, disability, care of the elderly, unemployment, and labour market activation) and their outcomes (in terms of inequality and poverty, macroeconomic performance, and retrenchment). The seventh section consists of seven chapters which survey welfare state experience around the globe (and not just within the OECD). Two final chapters consider questions about the global future of the welfare state. The individual chapters of the Handbook are written in an informed but accessible way by leading researchers in their respective fields giving the reader an excellent and truly up-to-date knowledge of the area under discussion. Taken together, they constitute a comprehensive compendium of all that is best in contemporary welfare state research and a unique guide to what is happening now in this most crucial and contested area of social and political development.

Author : Barry R. Weingast,Donald Wittman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 1112 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2008-06-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199548477

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The Oxford Handbook of Political Economy by Barry R. Weingast,Donald Wittman Pdf

Over its lifetime, 'political economy' has had different meanings. This handbook views political economy as a synthesis of the various strands of social science, treating it as the methodology of economics applied to the analysis of political behaviour and institutions.

Author : Joe Oppenheimer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2012-07-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781107014886

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Principles of Politics by Joe Oppenheimer Pdf

This book presents the rational choice theories of collective action and social choice, applying them to problems of public policy and social justice. Joe Oppenheimer has crafted a basic survey of, and pedagogic guide to, the findings of public choice theory for political scientists. He describes the problems of collective action, institutional structures, regime change, and political leadership.

Author : Jean-François Laslier,M. Remzi Sanver
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2010-06-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783642028397

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Handbook on Approval Voting by Jean-François Laslier,M. Remzi Sanver Pdf

With approval voting, voters can approve of as many candidates as they want, and the one approved by the most voters wins. This book surveys a wide variety of empirical and theoretical knowledge accumulated from years of studying this method of voting.

Author : Matthew D. Adler
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780190643027

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Measuring Social Welfare by Matthew D. Adler Pdf

Disputes over government policies rage in a number of areas. From taxation to climate change, from public finance to risk regulation, and from health care to infrastructure planning, advocates debate how policies affect multiple dimensions of individual well-being, how these effects balance against each other, and how trade-offs between overall well-being and inequality should be resolved. How to measure and balance well-being gains and losses is a vexed issue. Matthew D. Adler advances the debate by introducing the social welfare function (SWF) framework and demonstrating how it can be used as a powerful tool for evaluating governmental policies. The framework originates in welfare economics and in philosophical scholarship regarding individual well-being, ethics, and distributive justice. It has three core components: a well-being measure, which translates each of the possible policy outcomes into an array of interpersonally comparable well-being numbers, quantifying how well off each person in the population would be in that outcome; a rule for ranking outcomes thus described; and an uncertainty module, which orders policies understood as probability distributions over outcomes. The SWF framework is a significant improvement compared to cost-benefit analysis (CBA), which quantifies policy impacts in dollars, is thereby biased towards the rich, and is insensitive to the distribution of these monetized impacts. The SWF framework, by contrast, uses an unbiased measure of well-being and allows the policymaker to consider both efficiency (total well-being) and equity (the distribution of well-being). Because the SWF framework is a fully generic methodology for policy assessment, Adler also discusses how it can be implemented to inform government policies. He illustrates it through a detailed case study of risk regulation, contrasting the implications of results of SWF and CBA. This book provides an accessible, yet rigorous overview of the SWF approach that can inform policy-makers and students.

Author : Eric M. Uslaner
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 752 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2018-01-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780190274818

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The Oxford Handbook of Social and Political Trust by Eric M. Uslaner Pdf

This volume explores the foundations of trust, and whether social and political trust have common roots. Contributions by noted scholars examine how we measure trust, the cultural and social psychological roots of trust, the foundations of political trust, and how trust concerns the law, the economy, elections, international relations, corruption, and cooperation, among myriad societal factors. The rich assortment of essays on these themes addresses questions such as: How does national identity shape trust, and how does trust form in developing countries and in new democracies? Are minority groups less trusting than the dominant group in a society? Do immigrants adapt to the trust levels of their host countries? Does group interaction build trust? Does the welfare state promote trust and, in turn, does trust lead to greater well-being and to better health outcomes? The Oxford Handbook of Social and Political Trust considers these and other questions of critical importance for current scholarly investigations of trust.