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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| Collective Choice and Social Welfare canonical | 2 |
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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 ⓘ |
| author | Amartya Sen ⓘ |
| 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 ⓘ |
| field |
economic theory
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political philosophy ⓘ social choice theory ⓘ welfare economics ⓘ |
| genre |
economics literature
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political economy literature ⓘ |
| hasPart |
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 ⓘ |
| influenced |
modern welfare economics
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public choice theory ⓘ social evaluation of public policies ⓘ theory of justice debates ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainTopic |
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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