Utility, Preference, Individual Choice, Subjective Probability, and Measurement -- Entropy-Related Measures of the Utility of Gambling -- Altruistic Utility Functions for Joint Decisions -- SSB Preferences: Nonseparable Utilities or Nonseparable Beliefs -- Decision Making Based on Risk-Value...

Professor Amartya Sen has been a distinguished and influential scholar in development economics for over twenty years, and this edited volume seeks to reflect his interests, and the inspiration he has provided for others. The editors have succeeded in creating a coherent and stimulating set of...

Voting procedures focus on the aggregation of individuals' preferences to produce collective decisions. In practice, a voting procedure is characterized by ballot responses and the way ballots are tallied to determine winners. Voters are assumed to have clear preferences over candidates and...