- Preface (1970)
- New Preface (2017): Social Choice and this Book
- Individual Values and Social Choice
- Getting Involved
- What Did the 1970 Book Try to Do?
- This Expanded Edition
- The Chapters
- Democracy, Majority and Rights
- Partial Orderings
- Reasoning and Information
- Acknowledgements
- New Introduction (2017)
- Early Origins
- Modern Social Choice Theory
- Impossibility Results and Proximate Possibilities
- Crisis in Welfare Economics
- Attempted Repairs and Further Crises
- Welfare Economics and Voting Information
- Informational Penury as a Cause of Social Choice Problems
- Incorporating More Information in Social Decisions
- What Difference Does It Make?
- Interpersonal Comparison of What?
- Capabilities and Primary Goods
- Poverty as Capability Deprivation
- Capability Deprivation and Gender Inequality
- Voting and Majority Decisions
- Liberty and Rights
- Concluding Remarks
- A Note on the Texts
- Collective Choice and Social Welfare (1970)
- 1. Introduction
- 1*. Preference Relations
- 2. Unanimity
- 2*. Collective Choice Rules and Pareto Comparisons
- 3. Collective Rationality
- 3*. Social Welfare Functions
- 4. Choice Versus Orderings
- 4*. Social Decision Functions
- 5. Values and Choice
- 5*. Anonymity, Neutrality and Responsiveness
- 6. Conflicts and Dilemmas
- 6*. The Liberal Paradox
- 7. Interpersonal Aggregation and Comparability
- 7*. Aggregation Quasi-Orderings
- 8. Cardinality With or Without Comparability
- 8*. Bargains and Social Welfare Functions
- 9. Equity and Justice
- 9*. Impersonality and Collective Quasi-Orderings
- 10. Majority Choice and Related Systems
- 10*. Restricted Preferences and Rational Choice
- 11. Theory and Practice
- Collective Choice and Social Welfare (2017)
- A1. Enlightenment and Impossibility
- A1*. Social Preference
- A2. Rationality and Consistency
- A2*. Problems of Social Choice
- A3. Justice and Equity
- A3*. Social Welfare Evaluation
- A4. Democracy and Public Engagement
- A4*. Votes and Majorities
- A5. The Idea of Rights
- A5*. Rights and Social Choice
- A6. Reasoning and Social Decisions
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Subject Index
- Name Index
Collective Choice and Social Welfare
An Expanded Edition
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