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Informationen zum Autor Kotaro Suzumura is Professor Emeritus and Honorary Fellow, Waseda University, and Member of the Japan Academy. Klappentext Social choice theory critically assesses and rationally designs economic mechanisms for improving human well-being. Kotaro Suzumuräone 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. Zusammenfassung 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.
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Cover Title Copyright Contents Preface Original Sources Introduction Part I: Rational Choice as Rationalizable 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 Part 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 Part 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 Part 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 Part V: Consequentialism 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 Part 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 Part 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 Index
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Kotaro Suzumura is one of the foremost leaders of thought in rational decisions and social choice as well as the economics of welfare. The reach of his work is breathtaking, and I cannot think of anything that can beat this collection for its reach and profundity in exploring some of the most foundational issues in decision making, investigated at the highest level of analytical sophistication. The work is an inspiration as well as an intellectual feast.
-- Amartya Sen, Harvard University
Suzumura's leading position as a scholar in the theory of individual and social choice, and in the understanding of the intellectual foundations of public choice, is assured. This book shows the arc of his development. It contains a deep comprehension of the issues involved, both in their technical aspects and in their philosophical foundations.
-- Kenneth J. Arrow, Stanford University
The book collects the best of Kotaro Suzumura's work on social choice and welfare economics, adding a long introduction about his influences and several essays on the history of social choice...The volume will serve as a useful collection of Suzumura's work for social choice theorists and graduate students interested in the field, especially because it includes material that is otherwise hard to obtain.
-- R. B. Emmett Choice
