Choice, welfare, and measurement Amartya Kumar Sen
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass : Harvard University Press, 1997.
ISBN: 0674127781
DDC: 330.1556
LCC: HB846
Edition: (alk. paper)
Summary:
Choice, Welfare and Measurement contains many of Amartya Sen's most
important contributions to economic analysis and methods, including
papers on individual and social choice, preference and rationality,
and aggregation and economic measurement. A substantial introductory
essay interrelates his diverse concerns, and also analyzes
discussions generated by the original papers, focusing on the
underlying issues.
Notes:
Originally published: Oxford: Blackwell, 1982.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Pt. I. Choice and Preference. 1. Choice Functions and Revealed
Preference. 2. Behaviour and the Concept of Preference. 3. Choice,
Orderings and Morality. 4. Rational Fools: A Critique of the
Behavioural Foundations of Economic Theory -- Pt. II. Preference
Aggregation. 5. A Possibility Theorem on Majority Decisions. 6.
Quasi-transitivity, Rational Choice and Collective Decisions. 7.
Necessary and Sufficient Conditions for Rational Choice under
Majority Decision / Amartya Kumar Sen and P. K. Pattanaik. 8. Social
Choice Theory: A Re-examination -- Pt. III. Welfare Comparisons and
Social Choice. 9. Interpersonal Aggregation and Partial
Comparability. 10. On Ignorance and Equal Distribution. 11. On
Weights and Measures: Informational Constraints in Social Welfare
Analysis. 12. Interpersonal Comparisons of Welfare -- Pt. IV.
Non-utility Information. 13. The Impossibility of a Paretian Liberal.
14. Liberty, Unanimity and Rights.
15. Personal Utilities and Public Judgements: or What's Wrong with
Welfare Economics? 16. Equality of What? -- Pt. V. Social
Measurement. 17. Poverty: An Ordinal Approach to Measurement. 18.
Real National Income. 19. Ethical Measurement of Inequality: Some
Difficulties. 20. Description as Choice.
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