Maximization and the Act of Choice

act of choice acyclic Aizerman allocations Amartya Amartya K Amartya Sen analysis analytical Arrow axioms Baigent BANCA D'ITALIA basic binary relation R+ Buridan's ass cake choice act choice behaviour choice function choice function need choice problem choice theory chooser dependence choosing Clarendon Press comprehensive outcomes consequential consider culmination outcomes decision defined discussed Economic entail menu-independence epistemic ethics evolutionary example finite set formal fruit Gaertner given menu Immanuel Kant important incompleteness influence interpretation Kenneth Arrow knowledge of norms Kotaro Kreps Levi mango maximal element maximal set maximization and optimization maximizing behaviour menu-dependent preferences Moulin non-empty Nozick optimal alternative optimal set options Oxford particular Pattanaik permissibility function person pick player preference ranking preference relation process of choice Property Ragnar Frisch rational choice relevance revealed preference satisficing self-imposed choice constraints self-imposed constraints self-interest Social Choice social choice theory subset substantive Suzumura Theorem violated welfare welfare economics Zamagni