Choice, Welfare and Measurement

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Harvard University Press, 1997 - Business & Economics - 460 pages
Choice, 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
Name Index
450
Subject Index
457
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About the author (1997)

Amartya Sen is Lamont University Professor at Harvard University.

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