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24%OFFAmartya Sen - Collective Choice and Social Welfare: Expanded Edition - 9780141982502 - V9780141982502
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Collective Choice and Social Welfare: Expanded Edition

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Description for Collective Choice and Social Welfare: Expanded Edition Paperback. Num Pages: 640 pages. BIC Classification: JKS; KCR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 32. Weight in Grams: 432.
Nobel Prize winner Amartya Sen's first great book, now reissued in a fully revised and expanded second edition 'Can the values which individual members of society attach to different alternatives be aggregated into values for society as a whole, in a way that is both fair and theoretically sound? Is the majority principle a workable rule for making decisions? How should income inequality be measured? When and how can we compare the distribution of welfare in different societies?' These questions, from the citation by the Swedish Academy of Sciences when Amartya Sen was awarded ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
640
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780141982502
SKU
V9780141982502
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About Amartya Sen
Amartya Sen is one of the world's leading public intellectuals. He is Professor of Economics and Professor of Philosophy at Harvard. He was Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, from 1998 to 2004, and won the Nobel Prize for Economics in 1998. His many celebrated books include Development as Freedom (1999), The Argumentative Indian (2005) and The Idea of Justice (2010). ... Read more

Reviews for Collective Choice and Social Welfare: Expanded Edition
The first edition in 1970 of this fine book was of immense importance and at the core of Amartya Sen's Nobel Prize. His contributions since, to our conceptions of rights, liberty, justice, identity, poverty, inequality and development, have been of still greater significance to our understanding of the fundamental challenges we face as individuals and societies in thinking about who ... Read more

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