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....

Social choices, about expenditures on government programs, or about public policy more broadly, or indeed from any conceivable set of alternatives, are determined by politics. This book is a collection of essays that tie together the fields spanned by Jeffrey S. Banks' research on this subject....

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...

One of the main novelties of this book is its establishment of a clear relationship between social and public choice on one hand and multiple criteria decision analysis on the other. This relationship leads to the new concept of Social Multi-Criteria Evaluation (SMCE). SMCE is proposed as a...

From Black’s Advice and Arrow’s Theorem to the Gibbard-Satterthewaite Result -- The Impact of Forcing Preference Rankings When Indifference Exists -- Connections and Implications of the Ostrogorski Paradox for Spatial Voting Models -- Maximal Domains for Maskin Monotone Pareto Optimal and...

Sets, Relations and Preferences -- Linear Spaces and Transformations -- Topology and Convex Optimisation -- Differential Calculus and Smooth Optimisation -- Singularity Theory and General Equilibria -- Topology and Social Choice.

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...

to the Handbook on Approval Voting -- History of Approval Voting -- Acclamation Voting in Sparta: An Early Use of Approval Voting -- Going from Theory to Practice: The Mixed Success of Approval Voting -- Axiomatic Theory -- Collective Choice for Simple Preferences -- Axiomatizations of Approval...