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Choice, preferences, and procedures : a rational choice theoretic approach / Kotaro Suzumura.

LIBRA HB846.8 .S958 2016
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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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