Foundations of Social Choice Theory

Name: Foundations of Social Choice Theory
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ISBN: 9780521389136

ISBN-10: 0521389135

ISBN-13: 9780521389136

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Authors: Jon Elster, Aanund Hylland, Jon Elster

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The essays in this volume, all of which have been specially commissioned, examine the philosophical foundations of social choice theory. This field, a modern and sophisticated outgrowth of welfare economics, is best known for a series of impossibility theorems, of which the first and most crucial was proved by Kenneth Arrow in 1950. That has often been taken to show the impossibility of democracy as a procedure for making collective decisions. However, this interpretation is challenged by several of the contributors here. Other central issues discussed in the volume include the possibility of making interpersonal comparisons of utility, the question of whether all preferences are equally to…

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List price: $41.99
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 11/24/1989
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 260
Size: 5.47" wide x 8.50" long x 0.63" tall
Weight: 0.704
Language: English

Jon Elster is Professor of Rationalitï¿½ et sciences sociales at College de France, and Robert K. Merton Professor of Social Sciences at Columbia University. He is author of Closing the Books: Transitional Justice in Historical Perspective .



Preface


Notes on contributors


Introduction




Lady Chatterley's Lover and Doctor Fischer's Bomb Party: liberalism, Pareto optimality and the problem of objectionable preferences




The purpose and significance of social choice theory: some general remarks and an application to the 'Lady Chatterley problem'




Laundering preferences




The market and the forum: three varieties of political theory




An historical materialist alternative to welfarism




Interpersonal comparisons: preference, good and the intrinsic reward of a life




Judging interpersonal interests




Foundations of social choice theory: an epilogue



Index.