Choice, preferences, and procedures : a rational choice theoretic approach / Kotaro Suzumura

Author:: Suzumura, Kōtarō, 1944-2020
Published:: London, England : Harvard University Press, 2016.
Physical Description:: xvi, 787 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

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Machine generated contents note: pt. I RATIONAL CHOICE AS RATIONAUZABLE 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 -- pt. 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 -- pt. 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 -- pt. 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 -- pt. V CONSEQUENTIAL!SM 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 -- pt. 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 -- pt. 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.

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"--Provided by publisher.

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9780674725126 (alk. paper)
0674725123 (alk. paper)

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Chiefly essays previously published in various sources.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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