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Choice, Preferences, and Procedures : A Rational Choice Theoretic Approach /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, MA :
Harvard University Press,
[2016]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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