Social Choice, Welfare, and Ethics
Subtitle: Proceedings of the Eighth International Symposium in Economic Theory and Econometrics (International Symposia in Economic Theory and Econometrics)
Contributors: William A. Barnett (Editor); Hervé Moulin (Editor); Maurice Salles (Editor); Norman J. Schofield (Editor)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: February 24, 1995
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 431
ISBN-13: 9780521443401
Subjects: Econometrics; Economic theory & philosophy; Social choice; Sociology - General; Business & Economics; Sociology; Moral and ethical aspects; Business/Economics; Economics - Theory; Economic History; Business & Economics / Economic History; Social choice--Congresses; Welfare Economics; Congresses; Economics
First sentence: It is well known that some of the post-1951 themes in social choice were anticipated by isolated and misunderstood scholars, notably Condorcet and Borda in the late eighteenth century and Nanson and Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) in the late nineteenth.