Full title: Collective choice and social welfare / Amartya Sen.

Author/creator: Sen, Amartya, 1933-.

Call Numbers: G 2020/0642

Record Identifier: 74VKaZL3WpmZ

Language: English

Formats: Books

Contents: xxxvii, 601 pages ; 22 cm, , , , 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.

Publishers: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2017.

Notes: "Original edition first published by Penguin Books Ltd, London"--Title page verso. "First Harvard University Press edition, 2017"--Title page verso. Includes bibliographical references (pages 491-566) and index.

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DDC: 302.35

MMS ID: 991024291018902626