Choice, welfare and measurement

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Choice, welfare and measurement

Amartya Sen

Harvard University Press, 1997

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Choice, welfare, and measurement

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Originally published: Oxford : Blackwell, 1982

"First Harvard University Press paperback edition, 1997."--T.p. verso

Includes bibliographies and indexes

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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 Part 1: Choice and Preference 1. Choice Functions and Revealed Preference 2. Behaviour and the Concept to Preference 3. Choice, Orderings and Morality 4. Rational Fools: A Critique of the Behavioural Foundations of Economic Theory Part 2: 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 8. Decision with P.K. Pattanaik 9. Social Choice Theory: A Re-examination Part 3: Welfare Comparisons and Social Choice 10. Interpersonal Aggregation and Partial Comparability 11. On Ignorance and Equal Distribution 12. On weights and Measure: Informational Constraints in Social Welfare Analysis 13. Interpersonal Comparisons of Welfare Part 4: Non-Utility Information The Impossibility of a Paretian Liberal 14. Liberty, Unanimity and Rights 15. Personal Utilities and Public Judgments: or What's Wrong with Welfare 16. Economics 17. Equality of What Part 5: Social Measurement 18. Poverty: an ordinal Approach to Measurement 19. Real National Income 20. Ethical Measurement of Inequality: Some Difficulties 21. Description as Choice Name Index Subject Index

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