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- Presents frontier research on theories of rational choice and social welfare
- With applications to resource allocations; population ethics; demand for money; individual rights; measuring vulnerability, diversity, and changes in individual welfare
Part of the book series: Studies in Choice and Welfare (WELFARE)
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This volume brings together papers, which were ?rst presented at the International Conference on Rational Choice, Individual Rights and Non-Welfaristic Normative Economics, held in honour of Kotaro Suzumura at Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, on 11–13 March 2006, and which have subsequently gone through the usual process of review by referees. We have been helped by many individuals and institutions in organizing the conference and putting this volume together. We are grateful to the authors of this volume for contributing their papers and to the referees who reviewed the papers. We gratefully acknowledge the very generous fundings by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan, through the grant for the 21st Century Center of Excellence (COE) Program on the Normative Evaluation and Social Choice of Contemporary Economic Systems, and by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, through the grant for International Scienti?c Meetings in Japan, and the unstinted effort of the staff of the COE Program at Hitotsubashi University, without which the conference in 2006 would not have been possible. We thank Dr. Martina Bihn, the Editorial Director of Springer-Verlag for economics and business, for her advice and help. Finally, we would like to mention that it has been a great pleasure and privilege for us to edit this volume, which is intended to be a tribute to Kotaro Suzumura’s - mense intellectual contributions, especially in the theory of rational choice, welfare economics, and the theory of social choice. Riverside Prasanta K.
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Arrovian Social Choice Theory and its Developments
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Social Choice and Fair Allocations
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Rational Choice, Individual Welfare, and Games
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Social Welfare and the Measurement of Unemployment and Diversity
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Rational Choice and Social Welfare
Book Subtitle: Theory and Applications
Editors: Prasanta K. Pattanaik, Koichi Tadenuma, Yongsheng Xu, Naoki Yoshihara
Series Title: Studies in Choice and Welfare
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-79832-3
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Business and Economics, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2008
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-79831-6Published: 26 September 2008
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-09856-7Published: 30 November 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-79832-3Published: 30 September 2008
Series ISSN: 1614-0311
Series E-ISSN: 2197-8530
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 272
Number of Illustrations: 18 b/w illustrations
Topics: Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods, Public Economics, Political Science, Political Philosophy