- 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 Decision [with P.K. Pattanaik]
- 8. Social Choice Theory: A Re-examination
- Part 3: Welfare Comparisons and Social Choice
- 9. Interpersonal Aggregation and Partial Comparability
- 10. On Ignorance and Equal Distribution
- 11. On weights and Measure: Informational Constraints in Social Welfare Analysis
- 12. Interpersonal Comparisons of Welfare
- Part 4: Non-Utility Information
- 13. The Impossibility of a Paretian Liberal
- 14. Liberty, Unanimity and Rights
- 15. Personal Utilities and Public Judgments: or What’s Wrong with Welfare Economics?
- 16. Equality of What?
- Part 5: Social Measurement
- 17. Poverty: an ordinal Approach to Measurement
- 18. Real National Income
- 19. Ethical Measurement of Inequality: Some Difficulties
- 20. Description as Choice
- Name Index
- Subject Index

Choice, Welfare and Measurement
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Publication Date: 09/15/1997
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Awards & Accolades
- Amartya Sen Is a 2011 National Humanities Medal Winner
- Amartya Sen Is Winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Economics