Choice, Welfare and Measurement

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ISBN: 9780674127784 | 0674127781
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 9/15/1997

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"Choice, Welfare and Measurement" contains many of Amartya Sen's most important contributions to economic analysis and methods, including papers on choice, preference, rationality, aggregation, and measurement. A substantial introductory essay interrelates his diverse concerns, and also analyzes discussions generated by the original papers, focusing on the underlying issues.

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Preface
Introduction
Choice and Preference
Choice Functions and Revealed Preference
Behaviour and the Concept to Preference
Choice, Orderings and Morality
Rational Fools: A Critique of the Behavioural Foundations of Economic Theory
Preference Aggregation
A Possibility Theorem on Majority Decisions
Quasi-transitivity, Rational Choice and Collective Decisions
Necessary and Sufficient Conditions for Rational Choice under Majority
Decision with P.K. Pattanaik
Social Choice Theory: A Re-examination
Welfare Comparisons and Social Choice
Interpersonal Aggregation and Partial Comparability
On Ignorance and Equal Distribution
On weights and Measure: Informational Constraints in Social Welfare Analysis
Interpersonal Comparisons of Welfare
Non-Utility Information The Impossibility of a Paretian Liberal
Liberty, Unanimity and Rights
Personal Utilities and Public Judgments: or What's Wrong with Welfare
Economics
Equality of What
Social Measurement
Poverty: an ordinal Approach to Measurement
Real National Income
Ethical Measurement of Inequality: Some Difficulties
Description as Choice
Name Index
Subject Index
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