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Choice, preferences, and procedures : a rational choice theoretic approach / Kotaro Suzumura.
LIBRA HB846.8 .S958 2016
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Suzumura, Kōtarō, 1944-2020, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social choice.
- Rational choice theory.
- Welfare economics.
- Normative economics.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 787 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2016.
- Summary:
- "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 normative economics and collective decision-making"--Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Part I Rational Choice as Rationalizable Choice
- Introduction to Part I 101
- Essay 1 Rational Choice and Revealed Preference 109
- Essay 2 Houthakker's Axiom in the Theory of Rational Choke 127
- Essay 3 Suzumura-Consistent Rationalizability 135
- Essay 4 Revealed Preference and Choice under Uncertainty 157
- Part II Social Choice and Welfare Economics
- Introduction to Part II 175
- Essay 5 Impossibility Theorems without Collective Rationality 181
- Essay 6 Remarks on the Theory of Collective Choice 203
- Essay 7 Arrovian Aggregation in Economic Environments: How Much Should We Know about Indifference Surfaces? 219
- Essay 8 A Characterization of Suzumura-Consistent Collective Choke Rules 251
- Part III Equity, Efficiency, and Intergenerational Justice
- Introduction to Part III 267
- Essay 9 On Pareto-Efficiency and the No-Envy Concept of Equity 273
- Essay 10 The Informational Basis of the Theory of Fair Allocation 289
- Essay 11 Ordering Infinite Utility Streams 329
- Essay 12 Multi-Profile Intergenerational Social Choice 345
- Part IV Individual Rights and Social Welfare
- Introduction to Part IV 369
- Essay 13 On the Consistency of Libertarian Claims 375
- Essay 14 Liberal Paradox and the Voluntary Exchange of Rights Exercising 403
- Essay 15 Individual Rights Revisited 423
- Essay 16 Welfare, Rights, and Social Choice Procedure: A Perspective 447
- Part V Consequentialism Versus Nonconsequentialism
- Introduction to Part V 471
- Essay 17 Consequences, Opportunities, and Procedures 477
- Essay 18 Characterizations of Consequentialism and Nonconsequentialism 505
- Essay 19 Consequences, Opportunities, and Generalized Consequentialism and Nonconsequentialism 521
- Essay 20 Welfarist-Consequentialism, Similarity of Attitudes, and Arrow's General Impossibility Theorem 537
- Part VI Competition, Cooperation, and Economic Welfare
- Introduction to Part VI 559
- Essay 21 Entry Barriers and Economic Welfare 565
- Essay 22 Oligopolistic Competition and Economic Welfare: A General Equilibrium Analysis of Entry Regulation and Tax-Subsidy Schemes 585
- Essay 23 Symmetric Cournot Oligopoly and Economic Welfare: A Synthesis 611
- Essay 24 Cooperative and Noncooperative R&D in an Oligopoly with Spillovers 637
- Part VII Historically Speaking
- Introduction to Part VII 665
- Essay 25 Introduction to Social Choice and Welfare 671
- Essay 26 Paretian Welfare Judgmenrs and Bergsonian Social Choice 709
- Essay 27 Welfare Economics beyond Welfarist Consequentialism 731
- Essay 28 Informational Bases of Welfare Economics, Transcendental Institutionalism, and the Comparative.
- Notes:
- Chiefly essays previously published in various sources.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780674725126
- 0674725123
- OCLC:
- 919068273
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