Social Choice and Individual Values, Issue 12One of the outstanding works of original thought in the theory of social choice. |
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
THE NATURE OF PREFERENCE AND CHOICE | 9 |
THE SOCIAL WELFARE FUNCTION | 22 |
THE GENERAL POSSIBILITY THEOREM | 46 |
THE INDIVIDUALISTIC ASSUMPTIONS | 61 |
SIMILARITY AS THE BASIS OF SOCIAL WELFARE | 74 |
NOTES ON THE THEORY OF SOCIAL CHOICE | 92 |
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admissible set alternative social assumed behavior Bergson candidates Chapter choice function Collective Rationality commodity compensation principle Conditions 1-5 Condorcet criterion Consequence Cowles Cowles Commission Cowles Foundation decisive set defined Definition discussed distribution environment ethical follows formal given Hence implies Independence of Irrelevant indi indifference curves indifference map individual ordering relations individual orderings R1 individual prefers individual values interpersonal comparison irrelevant alternatives Kaldor principle least Lemma majority decision marginal utility mathematical method of majority number of individuals ordering of social P₁y pair of alternatives paradox of voting Pareto principle particular Possibility Theorem preferred or indifferent problem Professor proof quasi-ordering R₁ ranks rule satisfies Condition satisfying Axioms Section set of individual social alternatives social choice social ordering social preference social welfare function society subset Suppose three alternatives tion U₁(x utility function utility indicators value judgment vidual orderings voting weak ordering welfare economics welfare judgments