SOCIAL CHOICE THEORY

Edited by the late Charles K. Rowley, former General Director, The Locke Institute, Duncan Black Professor of Economics and Director, Program in Economics, Politics and the Law, James M. Buchanan Center for Political Economy, George Mason University, US

'Charles Rowley has given us an excellent collection of well-chosen papers from different fields in social choice theory. The selections are informed by Professor Rowley's broad command over the discipline. He has put social choice theorists in particular (and economists, political theorists and moral philosophers generally) much in his debt by providing this extremely useful collection.'

• CONTENTSINTRODUCTIONVOLUME I: THE AGGREGATION OF PREFERENCEPART I: FOUNDATIONSA. Bergson (1938), ‘A Reformulation of Certain Aspects of Welfare Economics’H. R. Bowen (1943), ‘A Reformulation of Voting in the Allocation of Economic Resources’D. Black (1948), ‘On the Rationale of Group Decision-making’K. J. Arrow (1950), ‘A Difficulty in the Concept of Social Welfare’PART II: COLLECTIVE RATIONALITY, VOTING AND STRATEGY-PROOFNESSI. M. D. Little (1952), ‘Social Choice and Individual Values’J. H. Blau (1957), ‘The Existence of Social Welfare Functions’K. J. Arrow (1959), ‘Rational Choice Functions and Orderings’J. de V. Graaff (1962), ‘On Making a Recommendation in a Democracy’G. Tullock (1964), ‘The Irrationality of Intransitivity’A. K. Sen (1964), ‘A Possibility Theorem on Majority Decisions’G. Tullock (1967), ‘The General Irrelevance of the General Impossibility Theorem’A. K. Sen and P. K. Pattanaik (1969), ‘Necessary and Sufficient Conditions for Rational Choice under Majority Decision’K. J. Arrow (1969), ‘Tullock and an Existence Theorem’K. J. Arrow (1967), ‘Values and Collective Decision-making’A. Gibbard (1973), ‘Manipulation of Voting Schemes: A General Result’C. R. Plott (1973), ‘Path Independence, Rationality and Social Choice’C. R. Plott (1976), ‘Axiomatic Social Choice Theory: An Overview and Interpretation’M. A. Satterthwaite (1975), ‘Strategy-proofness and Arrow’s Conditions: Existence and Correspondence Theorems for Voting Procedures and Social Welfare Functions’A. K. Sen (1977), ‘Social Choice Theory” A Re-examination’PART II: CRITIQUES OF ‘SOCIAL CHOICE AS SOCIAL ENGINEERING’L. Von Mises (2944), ‘The Treatment of “Irrationality” in the Social Sciences’F. A. Hayek (1945), ‘The Use of Knowledge in Society’J. M. Buchanan (1954), ‘Social Choice, Democracy and Free Markets’J. M. Buchanan (1954), ‘Individual Choice in Voting and the Market’J. M. Buchanan (1964), ‘What should Economists Do?’R. Sugden (1978), ‘Social Choice and Individual Liberty’A. Sen (1978), ‘Liberty as Control: An Appraisal;PART IV: ATTEMPTS TO ESCAPE FROM THE SOCIAL CHOICE DIFFICULTYJ. C. Harsanyi (1955), ‘Cardinal Welfare, Individualistic Ethics and Interpersonal Comparisons of Utility’T. Grooves and J. Ledyard (1977), ‘Optimal Allocation of Public Goods: A Solution to the “Free-rider” Problem’T. N. Tideman and G. Tullock (1976), ‘A New and Superior Process for Making Social Choices’W. H. Riker (1979), ‘Is “A New and Superior Process” Really Superior?’A. Sen (1977), ‘On weights and Measures: Informational Constraints in Social Welfare Analysis’VOLUME II: SOCIAL GOALSPART I: UTILITARIAN ETHICW. Vickrey (1945), ‘Measuring Marginal Utility by Reactions to Risk’M. Fleming (1952), ‘A Cardinal Concept of Welfare’J. C. Harsanyi (1953), ‘Cardinal Utility in Welfare Economics and in the Theory of Risk-taking’W. Vickrey (1960), ‘Utility, Strategy and Social Decision Rules’P. A. Diamond (1967), ‘Cardinal Welfare, Individualistic Ethics, and Interpersonal comparisons of Utility: Comment’R. A. Posner (1979), ‘Some Uses and Abuses of Economics in Law’R. A. Posner (1979), ‘Utilitarianism, Economics and Legal Theory’R. A. Posner (1979), ‘The Ethical and Political Basis of the Efficiency Norm in Common Law Adjudication’J. L. Coleman (1980), ‘Efficiency, Utility and Wealth Maximization’R. A. Posner (1981), ‘A Reply to Recent Criticisms of the Efficiency Theory of the Comment Law’J. C. Harsanyi (1980), ‘Rule Utilitarianism, Rights, Obligations and the Theory of Rational Behavior’A. K. Sen (1979), ‘Utilitarianism and Welfarism’PART II: THE CONTRACTARIAN ETHICJ. M. Buchanan (1975), ‘A Contractarian Paradigm for Applying Economic Theory’S. Gordon (1976), ‘The New Contractarians’N. P. Barry (1984), ‘Unanimity, Agreement and Liberalism: A Critique of James Buchanan’s Social Philosophy’L. B. Yeager (1985), ‘Rights, Contract and Utility in Policy Espousal’C. K. Rowley (1987), ‘The Economic Philosophy of James McGill Buchanan’A. Sandmo (1990), ‘Buchanan on Political Economy: A Review Article’T. M. Scanlon (1982), ‘Contractualism and utilitarianism’VOLUME IIIPART I: THE SOCIAL JUSTICE ETHICJ. Rawls (1958), ‘Justice as Fairness’J. Rawls (1974), ‘Some Reasons for the Maximum Criterion’J. Rawls (1975), ‘A Kantian Conception of Equality’J. Rawls (1985), ‘Justice as Fairness: Political not Metaphysical’J. M. Buchanan (1972), ‘Rawls on Justice as Fairness’H. L. A. Hart (1973), ‘Rawls on Liberty and Its Priority’S. Gordon (1973), ‘John Rawls’s Difference Principle, Utilitarianism and the Optimum Degree of Inequality’T. Nagel (1973), ‘Rawls on Justice’J. M. Buchanan (1976), ‘A Hobbesian Interpretation of the Rawlsian Difference Principle’J. C. Harsanyi (1975), ‘Can the Maximum Principle Serve as a Basis for Morality? A Critique of john Rawls’s Theory’H. R. Varian (1975), ‘Distributive Justice, Welfare Economics and the Theory of Fairness’C. K. Rowley and A. T. Peacock (1975), ‘Justice’A. Sen (1990), ‘Justice: Means versus Freedoms’PART II: THE CLASSICAL LIBERAL ETHICA. Sen (1970), ‘The Impossibility of a Paretian Liberal’Y. K. Ng (1971), ‘The possibility of a Paretian Liberal: Impossibility Theorems and Cardinal Utility’A. T. Peacock and C. K. Rowley (1972), ‘Pareto Optimally and the Political Economy of Liberalism’R. Nozick (1973), ‘Distributive Justice’A. Gibbard (1974), ‘A Pareto-Consistent Libertarian Claim’P. Bernholz (1974), ‘Is a Paretian Liberal Really Impossible?’J. H.Blau (1975), ‘Liberal Values and Independence’M. J. Farrell (1976)�, ‘Liberalism in the Theory of Social Choice’A. Sen (1976), ‘Liberty, Unanimity and Rights’C. K. Rowley (1978), ‘Liberalism and Collective Choice: A Return to Reality?’A. Sen (1979), ‘Personal Utilities and Public Judgements: Or What’s Wrong with Welfare Economics’P. Bernholz (1980), ‘A General Social Dilemma: Profitable Exchange and Intensitive Group Preferences’K. Suzumura (1980), ‘Liberal paradox and the Voluntary Exchange of Rights-Excerising’A. Sen (1983), ‘Liberty and Social Choice’K. Basu (1984), ‘The Right to Give Up Rights’R. Sugden (1985), ‘Liberty, Preference and Choice’J. M. Buchanan (1975), ‘Utopia, the Minimal State, and Entitlement’K. J. Arrow (1978), ‘Nozick’s Entitlement Theory of Justice’C. K. Rowley and R. E. Wagner (1990), ‘Choosing Freedom: Public Choice and the lLibertarian Idea’W. Gaertner, P. K. Pattanaik and K. Suzumura (1992), ‘Individual Rights Revisited’A. Sen (1992), ‘Minimal Liberty’