Choice, Preferences, and Procedures : A Rational Choice Theoretic Approach / Kotaro Suzumura.
Suzumura, Kotaro, author.
2016
HB846.8 .S898 2016
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Title Choice, Preferences, and Procedures : A Rational Choice Theoretic Approach / Kotaro Suzumura.
Author Suzumura, Kotaro, author.
ISBN 9780674726307
DOI https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674726307
Published Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2016]
Copyright ©2016
Language English
Language Note In English.
Description 1 online resource (816 p.) : 30 line illustrations, 3 tables
Other Standard Identifiers 10.4159/9780674726307 doi
Call Number HB846.8 .S898 2016
Dewey Decimal Classification 302/.1301
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.
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Frontmatter
Contents
Preface
Original Sources
Introduction
Part I. Rational Choice as Rationalizable Choice
Introduction to Part I
Essay 1. Rational Choice and Revealed Preference
Essay 2. Houthakker's Axiom in the Theory of Rational Choice
Essay 3. Suzumura-Consistent Rationalizability
Essay 4. Revealed Preference and Choice under Uncertainty
Part II. Social choice and Welfare Economics
Introduction to Part II
Essay 5. Impossibility Theorems without Collective Rationality
Essay 6. Remarks on the Theory of Collective Choice
Essay 7. Arrovian Aggregation in Economic Environments: How Much Should We Know about Indifference Surfaces?
Essay 8. A Characterization of Suzumura-Consistent Collective Choice Rules
Part III. Equity, Efficiency, and Intergenerational Justice
Introduction to Part III
Essay 9. On Pareto-Efficiency and the No-Envy Concept of Equity
Essay 10. The Informational Basis of the Theory of Fair Allocation
Essay 11. Ordering Infinite Utility Streams
Essay 12. Multi-Profile Intergenerational Social Choice
Part IV. Individual Rights and Social Welfare
Introduction to Part IV
Essay 13. On the Consistency of Libertarian Claims
Essay 14. Liberal Paradox and the Voluntary Exchange of Rights Exercising
Essay 15. Individual Rights Revisited
Essay 16. Welfare, Rights, and Social Choice Procedure: A Perspective
Part V. Consequentialism Versus Nonconsequentialism
Introduction to Part V
Essay 17. Consequences, Opportunities, and Procedures
Essay 18. Characterizations of Consequentialism and Nonconsequentialism
Essay 19. Consequences, Opportunities, and Generalized Consequentialism and Nonconsequentialism
Essay 20. Welfarist-Consequentialism, Similarity of Attitudes, and Arrow's General Impossibility Theorem
Part VI. Competition, Cooperation, and Economic Welfare
Introduction to Part VI
Essay 21. Entry Barriers and Economic Welfare
Essay 22. Oligopolistic Competition and Economic Welfare: A General Equilibrium Analysis of Entry Regulation and Tax-Subsidy Schemes
Essay 23. Symmetric Cournot Oligopoly and Economic Welfare: A Synthesis
Essay 24. Cooperative and Noncooperative R&D in an Oligopoly with Spillovers
Part VII. Historically Speaking
Introduction to Part VII
Essay 25. Introduction to Social Choice and Welfare
Essay 26. Paretian Welfare Judgments and Bergsonian Social Choice
Essay 27. Welfare Economics beyond Welfarist Consequentialism
Essay 28. Informational Bases of Welfare Economics, Transcendental Institutionalism, and the Comparative Assessment Approach
Index

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