Collective Choice and Social Welfare
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Collective Choice and Social Welfare is a foundational work in social choice theory that rigorously examines how individual preferences can be aggregated into collective decisions while addressing issues of welfare, justice, and fairness.
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academic monograph
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book → non-fiction book → work in social choice theory → |
| aim |
to clarify how individual preferences can be aggregated into collective decisions
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to examine the ethical foundations of social welfare judgments → to reconcile welfare, justice, and fairness in collective choice → |
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Amartya Sen
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| contribution |
critique of purely ordinal approaches to welfare
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defense of the possibility of interpersonal welfare comparisons → formal analysis of conditions for social welfare orderings → framework for evaluating social states → integration of welfare economics with social choice theory → |
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economic theory
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political philosophy → social choice theory → welfare economics → |
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economics literature
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political economy literature → |
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analysis of equity and welfare comparisons
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axiomatic analysis of social choice rules → discussion of Arrow-type impossibility results → treatment of rights and individual liberties → |
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modern welfare economics
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public choice theory → social evaluation of public policies → theory of justice debates → |
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English
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Arrow’s impossibility theorem
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aggregation of individual preferences → choice under social constraints → collective decision-making → collective rationality → equity and efficiency trade-offs → fairness → interpersonal comparisons of utility → justice → rights and liberties in social choice → social choice rules → social welfare → social welfare functions → value judgments in welfare economics → welfare judgments → |
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foundational status in social choice theory
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linking formal social choice theory with normative ethics → rigorous axiomatic treatment of social choice → |
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Amartya Sen
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