Social Choice Re-examined - Volume 1: Proceedings of the IEA Conference held at Schloss Hernstein, Berndorf, near Vienna, Austria (Hardcover, 1997 ed.)

Since World War II the subject of social choice has grown in many and surprising ways. The impossibility theorems have suggested many directions: mathematical characterisations of voting structures satisfying various sets of conditions, the consequences of restricting choice to certain domaines, the relation to competitive equilibrium and the core, and trade-offs among the partial satisfactions of some conditions. The links with classical and modern theories of justice and, in particular, the competing ideas of rights and utilitarianism have shown the power of formal social choice analysis in illuminating the most basic philosophical arguments about the good social life. Finally, the ideals of the just society meet with the play of self interest; social choice mechanisms can lend themselves to manipulation, and the analysis of conditions under which given ideals can be realised under self interest is a political parallel to the welfare economics of the market. The contributors to these volumes focus on these issues at the forefront of current research.

General

Imprint:	Palgrave Macmillan
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	International Economic Association Series
Release date:	October 1997
First published:	1997
Editors:	A. Sen
Authors:	K otar o Suzumura
Editors:	Karrow
Dimensions:	216 x 140 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	212
Edition:	1997 ed.
ISBN-13:	978-0-312-12739-8
Categories:	Books > Business & Economics > Economics > International economics > General Promotions
LSN:	0-312-12739-1
Barcode:	9780312127398

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