Rational choice and social welfare : theory and applications / edited by Prasanta K. Pattanaik ... [and others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pattanaik, Prasanta K.

Series:

Studies in choice and welfare

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social choice.

Rational choice theory.

Welfare economics.

Local Subjects:

Social choice.

Physical Description:

xi, 269 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; London : Springer, 2008.

Summary:

Studies in Choice and Welfare is a book series dedicated to the ethical and positive aspects of welfare economics and choice theory. Topics comprise individual choice and preference theory, social choice and voting theory (normative, positive and strategic sides) as well as all aspects of welfare theory (Pareto optimality; welfare criteria; fairness, justice and equity; externalities; public goods; optimal taxation; incentives in public decision making; cost-benefit analysis, etc.).

Contents:

Part I Arrovian Social Choice Theory and its Developments

Limited Rights as Partial Veto and Sen's Impossibility Theorem / Maurice Salles 11

Harmless Homotopic Dictators / Nicholas Baigent 25

Remarks on Population Ethics / Tomoichi Shinotsuka 35

On Non-Welfarist Social Ordering Functions / Naoki Yoshihara 43

Part II Social Choice and Fair Allocations

Monotonicity and Solidarity Axioms in Economics and Game Theory / Yves Sprumont 71

To Envy or to be Envied? Refinements of the Envy Test for the Compensation Problem / Marc Fleurbaey 95

Choice-Consistent Resolutions of the Efficiency-Equity Trade-Off / Koichi Tadenuma 119

Characterization of the Maximin Choice Function in a Simple Dynamic Economy / Koichi Suga, Daisuke Udagawa 139

Part III Rational Choice, Individual Welfare, and Games

Suzumura Consistency / Walter Bossert 159

On the Microtheoretic Foundations of Cagan's Demand for Money Function / Rajat Deb, Kaushal Kishore, Tae Kun Seo 181

Hicksian Surplus Measures of Individual Welfare Change When There is Price and Income Uncertainty / Charles Blackorby, David Donaldson, John A. Weymark 195

Beyond Normal Form Invariance: First Mover Advantage in Two-Stage Games with or without Predictable Cheap Talk / Peter J. Hammond 215

Part IV Social Welfare and the Measurement of Unemployment and Diversity

Unemployment and Vulnerability: A Class of Distribution Sensitive Measures, its Axiomatic Properties, and Applications / Kaushik Basu, Patrick Nolen 237

Ordinal Distance, Dominance, and the Measurement of Diversity / Prasanta K. Pattanaik, Yongsheng Xu 259.

ISBN:

9783540798316

3540798315

OCLC:

227033855