Part I: Individual Choice and Rationality -- Part II: Collective Choice and Collective Rationality -- Part III: Social … of social welfare. The topics include individual and collective rationality, motivation and intention in economics …, coercion, public goods, climate change, and voting theory. The book offers an excellent overview over latest research in these …

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This unique book develops an operational approach to preference and rationality as the author employs operators over … binary relations to capture the concept of rationality. A preference is a basis of individual behavior and social judgment … demanding; and then, weaker rationality conditions are introduced by researchers. This book argues that the preference …

Applying a rational choice perspective, this book presents a dynamic theory of the evolution of totalitarian regimes …Introduction -- Ideologies of National Socialism, Communism, Christianity and Islam -- The Theory of Totalitarianism … Ideocracies -- The Theory of Totalitarian Regimes, Part II: Stability, Further Development and Demise -- The Constitution of …