Choice, Welfare and MeasurementChoice, Welfare and Measurement contains many of Amartya Sen's most important contributions to economic analysis and methods, including papers on choice, preference, rationality, aggregation, and measurement. A substantial introductory essay interrelates his diverse concerns, and also analyzes discussions generated by the original papers, focusing on the underlying issues. |
Contents
Choice Functions and Revealed Preference | 41 |
Behaviour and the Concept of Preference | 54 |
Choice Orderings and Morality | 74 |
A Critique of the Behavioural Foundations | 84 |
A Possibility Theorem on Majority Decisions | 109 |
Quasitransitivity Rational Choice and Collective Decisions | 118 |
Necessary and Sufficient Conditions for Rational Choice under | 135 |
A Reexamination | 158 |
The Impossibility of a Paretian Liberal | 285 |
Liberty Unanimity and Rights | 291 |
or Whats Wrong with Welfare Economics? | 327 |
Equality of What? | 353 |
Social Measurement | 371 |
An Ordinal Approach to Measurement | 373 |
Real National Income | 388 |
Some Difficulties | 416 |
Interpersonal Aggregation and Partial Comparability | 203 |
On Ignorance and Equal Distribution | 222 |
Interpersonal Comparisons of Welfare | 264 |
Nonutility Information | 283 |
Description as Choice | 432 |
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