The main conceptual framework of classical social choice places preference conflicts between agents centre-stage. This paper develops the case for a second conception of social choice where entitlements are established through the integration of different, primitive classes of claim and supports...

The paper mustrates the scope for enhancing the conceptual apparatus used by agricultural economists to analyse decision-making under conditions of uncertainty. Selected empirical results from experiments on student subjects from three universities are reported. Three issues are considered....

This paper explores some difficulties encountered in multidimensional measures of wellbeing. In particular, it highlights the need for such indices to (i) incorporate information on individual preferences, (ii) be robust with respect to estimation assumptions given the 'curse of dimensionality'...