Preface Introduction Part 1: Choice and Preference 1. Choice Functions and Revealed Preference 2. Behaviour and the Concept to Preference 3. Choice, Orderings and Morality 4. Rational Fools: A Critique of the Behavioural Foundations of Economic Theory Part 2: Preference Aggregation 5. A Possibility Theorem on Majority Decisions 6. Quasi-transitivity, Rational Choice and Collective Decisions 7. Necessary and Sufficient Conditions for Rational Choice under Majority 8. Decision with P.K. Pattanaik 9. Social Choice Theory: A Re-examination Part 3: Welfare Comparisons and Social Choice 10. Interpersonal Aggregation and Partial Comparability 11. On Ignorance and Equal Distribution 12. On weights and Measure: Informational Constraints in Social Welfare Analysis 13. Interpersonal Comparisons of Welfare Part 4: Non-Utility Information The Impossibility of a Paretian Liberal 14. Liberty, Unanimity and Rights 15. Personal Utilities and Public Judgments: or What's Wrong with Welfare 16. Economics 17. Equality of What Part 5: Social Measurement 18. Poverty: an ordinal Approach to Measurement 19. Real National Income 20. Ethical Measurement of Inequality: Some Difficulties 21. Description as Choice Name Index Subject Index
Sen's mastery in the fields of social choice, the foundation of welfare economics, and, more broadly, distributive ethics and the measurement problems associated with these fields is unquestioned. This selection of articles fully reflects his work in these areas...A number of papers are classics. -- Kenneth J. Acrow
Amartya Sen is Lamont University Professor at Harvard University.
Amartya Sen, [the 1998] Nobel Prizewinner in Economics, has helped
give voice to the world's poor. And that is no small matter, for
the very lives of the world's poor may depend on having their
voices heard. In a lifetime of careful scholarship, Sen has
repeatedly returned to a basic theme: even impoverished societies
can improve the well-being of their least advantaged members.
Societies that attend to the poorest of the poor can save their
lives, promote their longevity and increase their opportunities
through education and productive work. Societies that neglect the
poor, on the other hand, may inadvertently allow millions to die of
famine--even in the middle of an economic boom, as occurred during
the great famine in Bengal, India, in 1943, the subject of Sen's
most famous case study...Sen [delivers a] powerful message: annual
income growth is not enough to achieve development. Societies must
pay attention to social goals as well, always leaning toward their
most vulnerable citizens, and overcoming deep-rooted biases to
invest in the health and well-being of girls as well as boys. In a
world in which 1.5 billion people subsist on less than $1 a day,
this Nobel Prize can be not just a celebration of a wonderful
scholar but also a clarion call to attend to the urgent needs and
hopes of the world's poor.
*Time*
Many of these papers are classics that one consults again and
again. But [the collection] is more than a convenience: one gains
something from reading these essays together.
*Times Higher Education Supplement*
Sen’s mastery in the fields of social choice, the foundation of
welfare economics, and, more broadly, distributive ethics and the
measurement problems associated with these fields is unquestioned.
This selection of articles fully reflects his work in these areas…
A number of papers are classics.
*Kenneth J. Arrow*
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