Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface ix
4. Original Sources xiii
5. Introduction 1
6. Part I. Rational Choice as Rationalizable Choice
7. Introduction to Part I 101
8. Essay 1. Rational Choice and Revealed Preference 109
9. Essay 2. Houthakker’s Axiom in the Theory of Rational Choice 127
10. Essay 3. Suzumura-Consistent Rationalizability 135
11. Essay 4. Revealed Preference and Choice under Uncertainty 157
12. Part II. Social choice and Welfare Economics
13. Introduction to Part II 175
14. Essay 5. Impossibility Theorems without Collective Rationality 181
15. Essay 6. Remarks on the Theory of Collective Choice 203
16. Essay 7. Arrovian Aggregation in Economic Environments: How Much Should We Know about Indifference Surfaces? 219
17. Essay 8. A Characterization of Suzumura-Consistent Collective Choice Rules 251
18. Part III. Equity, Efficiency, and Intergenerational Justice
19. Introduction to Part III 267
20. Essay 9. On Pareto-Efficiency and the No-Envy Concept of Equity 273
21. Essay 10. The Informational Basis of the Theory of Fair Allocation 289
22. Essay 11. Ordering Infinite Utility Streams 329
23. Essay 12. Multi-Profile Intergenerational Social Choice 345
24. Part IV. Individual Rights and Social Welfare
25. Introduction to Part IV 369
26. Essay 13. On the Consistency of Libertarian Claims 375
27. Essay 14. Liberal Paradox and the Voluntary Exchange of Rights Exercising 403
28. Essay 15. Individual Rights Revisited 423
29. Essay 16. Welfare, Rights, and Social Choice Procedure: A Perspective 447
30. Part V. Consequentialism Versus Nonconsequentialism
31. Introduction to Part V 471
32. Essay 17. Consequences, Opportunities, and Procedures 477
33. Essay 18. Characterizations of Consequentialism and Nonconsequentialism 505
34. Essay 19. Consequences, Opportunities, and Generalized Consequentialism and Nonconsequentialism 521
35. Essay 20. Welfarist-Consequentialism, Similarity of Attitudes, and Arrow’s General Impossibility Theorem 537
36. Part VI. Competition, Cooperation, and Economic Welfare
37. Introduction to Part VI 559
38. Essay 21. Entry Barriers and Economic Welfare 565
39. Essay 22. Oligopolistic Competition and Economic Welfare: A General Equilibrium Analysis of Entry Regulation and Tax-Subsidy Schemes 585
40. Essay 23. Symmetric Cournot Oligopoly and Economic Welfare: A Synthesis 611
41. Essay 24. Cooperative and Noncooperative R&D in an Oligopoly with Spillovers 637
42. Part VII. Historically Speaking
43. Introduction to Part VII 665
44. Essay 25. Introduction to Social Choice and Welfare 671
45. Essay 26. Paretian Welfare Judgments and Bergsonian Social Choice 709
46. Essay 27. Welfare Economics beyond Welfarist Consequentialism 731
47. Essay 28. Informational Bases of Welfare Economics, Transcendental Institutionalism, and the Comparative Assessment Approach 755
48. Index 771