Rational choice and social welfare: theory and applications
Pattanaik, P.K.
Tadenuma, K.
Xu, Y.
Yoshihara, N.
The papers in this volume explore various issues relating to theories of rational choice and social welfare and their applications. The topics include resource allocation problems, population ethics, rationalizability of choice functions and demand functions for money, game theory, individual rights, and measurements of vulnerability, diversity, and changes in individual welfare. Researchers and advanced graduate students who want to learn more about such topics will find the book very useful. Presents frontier research on theories of rational choice and social welfare With applications to resource allocations; population ethics; demand for money; individual rights; measuring vulnerability, diversity, and changes in individual welfare INDICE: Part I: Arrovian Social Choice Theory and its Developments.- Part II: Social Choice and Fair Allocations.- Part III: Rational Choice, IndividualWelfare, and Games.- Part IV: Social Welfare and the Measurement of Unemployment and Diversity.
- ISBN: 978-3-540-79831-6
- Editorial: Springer
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 265
- Fecha Publicación: 01/07/2008
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés