Social Choice
A Framework for Collective Decisions and Individual Judgements

This textbook integrates the ethical aspects of the subject with positive aspects of decision mechanisms that centre on the revelation of true preferences.

John Craven (Edited by)

9780521325363, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 16 January 1992

164 pages, 2 b/w illus.
23.7 x 15.9 x 1.5 cm, 0.376 kg

"Craven's Social Choice is a useful book for someone interested in a general overview of social choice and is a 'must buy' for those interested in the connections between social choice theory and mainstream ethics." Ethics

This textbook provides a survey of the literature of social choice. It integrates the ethical aspects of the subject, (discussing potentially desirable conditions for social judgements) with positive aspects of decision mechanisms that centre on the revelation of true preferences. The literature on the subject presently consists of a great many papers. This book draws them together in common notation and points out interpretations which are often missing in specialist papers. Applications in economics, electoral politics, and ethics are discussed. The book will be used by senior undergraduate and graduate students of economics, political science and philosophy as a text book in the subject.

Preface
1. Introduction
2. Preference and choice
3. Arrow's theorem
4. Collective rationality
5. Strategic manipulation of choice rules
6. Rescuing majority voting
7. Rights
8. Justice
9. Utilitarian judgements
Bibliography
Index.

Subject Areas: Economic theory & philosophy [KCA]