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Social Choice Theory |
Edited by Charles K. Rowley, General Director, The Locke Institute, Duncan Black
Professor of Economics and Director, Program in Economics, Politics and the Law, James M. Buchanan Center for Political Economy, George Mason University, US
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| 1993 |
1,716 pp |
Hardback |
978 1 85278 159 0 |
£430.00 |
on-line discount
£387.00 |
Three volume set |
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‘Charles Rowley has given us an excellent collection of well-chosen papers from different fields in social choice theory. The selections are informed by Professor Rowley's broad command over the discipline. He has put social choice theorists in particular (and economists, political theorists and moral philosophers generally) much in his debt by providing this extremely useful collection.’
– Amartya Sen, Harvard University, US
‘Public choice researchers will find that the collection of articles provides a magnificent perspective on the on the breadth and scope of formal political economy.’
– Michael Cain, Public Choice
This major reference collection presents in three volumes the key articles and papers on social choice theory.
Volume One centres attention on key aspects of the debate on Arrow's impossibility theorem, carefully counter-poising differing viewpoints and embracing competing methodologies. In a field prone to the excessive use of mathematics and of arcane high theory, Charles Rowley skilfully presents a literature which is accessible to non-mathematicians and yet which offers full coverage of all the major debates.
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84 articles, dating from 1938 to 1992
Contents: 1. Foundations 2. Collective Rationality, Voting and Strategy-Proofness 3. Critiques of ‘Social Choice as Social Engineering’ 4. Attempts to Escape from the Social Choice Difficulty 5. The Utilitarian Ethic 6. The Contractarian Ethic 7. The Social Justice Ethic 8. The Classical Liberal Ethic
Contributors include: K.J. Arrow, J.M. Buchanan, R.A. Posner, A.K. Sen, T.N. Tideman, L. Von Mises
View the author's website at
http://www.thelockeinstitute.org
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