This book offers a pluralistic vision of the way economists have dealt with the question of power in society over the last two centuries. Economists’ ideas about power are examined from political, theoretical and policy-making points of view, with additional discussion of the active...

The papers in this volume explore various issues relating to theories of individual and collective choice, and theories of social welfare. The topics include individual and collective rationality, motivation and intention in economics, coercion, public goods, climate change, and voting theory....

Einführung -- Einführung -- Allokationstheoretische Grundlagen -- Ziele staatlicher Wirtschaftspolitik -- Allokationstheorie und Wirtschaftspolitik -- Grundlagen der politischen Ökonomie -- Grundmodelle der direkten und der indirekten Demokratie -- Theorie wirtschaftspolitischer Reformen --...

An Introduction to Social Ethics and Normative Economics -- Kolm as a Contributor to Public Utility Pricing, Second-Best Culture, and the Theory of Regulation -- Public Utility Pricing and Capacity Choice with Stochastic Demand -- Bidimensional Inequalities with an Ordinal Variable -- Inequality...

Representations of constitutions -- to Part I -- Constitutions, effectivity functions, and game forms -- Nash consistent representations -- Acceptable representations -- Strongly consistent representations -- Nash consistent representation through lottery models -- On the continuity of...

Die Strategie Dieses Buches -- Methodische Grundlagen -- Wohlfahrtstheoretische Grundlagen -- Marktversagen und Gefangenen-Dilemma -- Kollektive Entscheidungen -- Markt und Wettbewerb -- Die Regulierung NatÜrlicher Monopole -- Externe Effekte, ClubgÜter und Das Allmende-Problem --...