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Title

Social choice, welfare, and ethics : proceedings of the Eighth International Symposium in Economic Theory and Econometrics / edited by William A. Barnett [and others].

Author

International Symposium in Economic Theory and Econometrics (8th : 1992 : Caen, France)

Publication

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1995.

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Additional Authors

Barnett, William A.

Description

xi, 419 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

• The volume is divided into six parts, each exploring broad themes in social choice theory and welfare economics. The first is an overview of the short - yet intense - period of the subject's historical development. The second is a discussion of the ethical aspects of social choice, encompassing such issues as equal opportunity, individual rights, and population monotonicity.
• Parts three and four are devoted to algebraic and combinatorial aspects of social choice theory, including analyses of Arrow's Theorem, consensus functions, and the role of geometry. Part five deals with the application of cooperative game theory to social choice.
• The final section is devoted to a study of aggregation with risk aversion to current and future variables, and the creation of an intertemporal framework to go beyond the usual static description of income distributions measured over a short period.

Series Statement

International symposia in economic theory and econometrics

Uniform Title

International symposia in economic theory and econometrics.

Subject

• Social choice > Congresses
• Welfare economics > Congresses
• Economics > Moral and ethical aspects > Congresses
• Social choice > Econometric models > Congresses

Note

• Proceedings of the conference held at the University of Caen in Caen, France, on June 9-12, 1992.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

• Introduction and overview / Herve Moulin, Maurice Salles and Norman J. Schofield -- 1. The first golden age of social choice, 1784-1803 / Iain McLean -- 2. The requisites of equal opportunity / Marc Fleurbaey -- 3. Social choice of individual and group rights / Peter J. Hammond -- 4. Population monotonic allocation rules / William Thomson -- 5. Condorcet efficiency and social homogeneity / William V. Gehrlein -- 6. Latticial theory of consensus / Bruno Leclerc and Bernard Monjardet -- 7. Arrow theorems in economic environments / James Redekop -- 8. Inner consistency or not inner consistency: A reformulation is the answer / Donald G. Saari -- 9. Existence of a smooth social choice functor / Norman J. Schofield -- 10. Dynamical convergence in the Euclidean spatial model / Craig A. Tovey -- 11. Incentives in market games with asymmetric information: Approximate NTU cores in large economies / Beth Allen --
• 12. A note on implementation and strong dominance / Tilman Borgers -- 13. Coalition-proof communication equilibria / Ezra Einy and Bezalel Peleg -- 14. Stability of coalition structures and the principle of optimal partitioning / Michel Le Breton and Shlomo Weber -- 15. The holdout game: An experimental study of an infinitely repeated game with two-sided incomplete information / Richard D. McKelvey and Thomas R. Palfrey -- 16. Exact aggregation under risk / William A. Barnett -- 17. The stochastic dominance ordering of income distributions over time: The discounted sum of the expected utilities of incomes / Thierry Karcher, Patrick Moyes and Alain Trannoy.

ISBN

0521443407 (hardback)

LCCN

94025322

OCLC

• 30738466
• ocm30738466

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries