Social choice and individual values / Kenneth J. Arrow ; foreword by Eric S. Maskin.

"Originally published in 1951, Social Choice and Individual Values introduced "Arrow's Impossibility Theorem" and founded the field of social choice theory in economics and political science. This new edition, including a new foreword by Nobel laureate Eric Maskin, reintroduces A...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Arrow, Kenneth J. (Kenneth Joseph), 1921-2017 (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [2012]
Edition:Third edition.
Series:Monograph (Yale University. Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics) ; 12.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • FOREWORD TO THE THIRD EDITION / Maskin, Eric S.
  • PREFACE TO SECOND EDITION
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • CONTENTS
  • I. INTRODUCTION
  • II. THE NATURE OF PREFERENCE AND CHOICE
  • III. THE SOCIAL WELFARE FUNCTION
  • IV. THE COMPENSATION PRINCIPLE
  • V. THE GENERAL POSSIBILITY THEOREM FOR SOCIAL WELFARE FUNCTIONS
  • VI. THE INDIVIDUALISTIC ASSUMPTIONS
  • VII. SIMILARITY AS THE BASIS OF SOCIAL WELFARE JUDGMENTS
  • VIII. NOTES ON THE THEORY OF SOCIAL CHOICE, 92 1963
  • INDEX.