Handbook of Social Choice and Welfare
Arrow, Kenneth J. (Kenneth Arrow, Joan Kenney Professor of Economics and Professor of Operations Research, Emeritus, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA) / Sen, A. (Harvard University) / Suzumura, Kotaro (Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan) The literature of social choice investigates individual and societal preferences as well as a collective rationality by drawing on a combination of economic theory, philosophical perspectives, and historical records. This volume, edited by the leaders of social choice theory, presents broad yet detailed examinations of its antecedents, its growth and increasing sophistication, and its potential paths of future development. Its contributors rec...