Chapter Thirteen. Kenneth Arrow on Social Choice Theory
Kenneth Arrow founded the modern form of social choice theory in a path-breaking contribution at the middle of the twentieth century. The editors of the Handbook of Social Choice and Welfare other than Arrow begin this final volume by noting the continuing need to read Arrow's decisive contribution in his epoch-making book Social Choice and Individual Values , which started the contemporary round of research on social choice theory. This chapter also includes an interview that Kenneth Arrow gave to Professor Jerry Kelly a few years ago, which was published in Social Choice and Welfare . This presents Arrow's thinking on the subject as it developed because of his own pioneering contribution. Finally, this chapter also includes some new observations by Arrow, The Classification of Social Choice Propositions, dealing particularly with the distinction between normative and descriptive statements in social choice theory. These notes, which Arrow has written for this volume at a very difficult time for him, reflect inevitably in a highly compressed form, some recent thoughts of the founder of the discipline on an important methodological issue in social choice theory.
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2011
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Authors: | Arrow, Kenneth ; Sen, Amartya ; Suzumura, Kotaro |
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Handbook of social choice and welfare : volume 2. - Amsterdam : Elsevier, ISBN 0-08-092982-6. - 2011, p. 3-27
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