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The handbook of rational and social choice : an overview of new foundations and applications / edited by Paul Anand, Prasanta K. Pattanaik and Clemens Puppe.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Decision making.
- Social choice.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (592 p.)
- Other Title:
- Handbook of rational & social choice
- Rational and social choice
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This volume provides an overview of issues arising in work on the foundations of decision theory & social choice. The collection will be of value to researchers in economics with interests in utility or welfare, but also to any social scientist or philosopher interested in theories of rationality or group decision-making.
- Contents:
- Contents; List of Contributors; Introduction; PART I: UTILITY THEORY, RATIONALITY, AND DECISION-MAKING; 1. Expected Utility Theory; 2. Rank-Dependent Utility; 3. Applications of Non-Expected Utility; 4. Ambiguity; 5. The Normative Status of the Independence Principle; 6. Rationality and Intransitive Preference: Foundations for the Modern View; 7. Dutch Book Arguments; 8. Experimental Tests of Rationality; 9. State-Dependent Utility; 10. Choice over Time; 11. Imitation and Learning; 12. Diversity; PART II: SOCIAL CHOICE AND WELFARE
- 13. Limits of Utilitarianism as the Ethical Basis of Public Action14. Consequentialism and Non-Consequentialism: The Axiomatic Approach; 15. Freedom of Choice; 16. Responsibility; 17. Equality and Priority; 18. Rawlsian Justice; 19. Judgment Aggregation; 20. Population Ethics; 21. Distributive Justice: An Overview of Experimental Evidence; 22. Social Choice in Health and Health Care; 23. The Capabilities Approach; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-155858-3
- 1-282-07621-3
- 9786612076213
- OCLC:
- 322512325
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