This chapter presents the book Handbook of Social Choice and Welfare in two volumes, essays on past and on-going work in social choice theory and welfare economics. The first volume consists of four parts. In Part 1 (Arrovian Impossibility Theorems), various aspects of Arrovian general...

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...