Individual and Collective Choice and Social Welfare: Essays in Honor of Nick Baigent (Studies in Choice and Welfare)

The papers in this volume explore various issues relating to theories of individual and collective choice, and theories of social welfare. The topics include individual and collective rationality, motivation and intention in economics, coercion, public goods, climate change, and voting theory. The book offers an excellent overview over latest research in these fields. Front Matter....Pages i-x Introduction....Pages 1-7 Front Matter....Pages 9-9 Conflicts in Decision Making....Pages 11-29 A Note on Incompleteness, Transitivity and Suzumura Consistency....Pages 31-47 Rationality and Context-Dependent Preferences....Pages 49-63 A Primer on Economic Choice Automata....Pages 65-94 Moral Responsibility and Individual Choice....Pages 95-105 Front Matter....Pages 107-107 Multi-Profile Intertemporal Social Choice: A Survey....Pages 109-126 Minimal Maskin Monotonic Extensions of Tournament Solutions....Pages 127-141 Single-Profile Choice Functions and Variable Societies: Characterizing Approval Voting....Pages 143-148 Nondictatorial Arrovian Social Welfare Functions: An Integer Programming Approach....Pages 149-169 Distance Rationalizability of Scoring Rules....Pages 171-178 Climate Change and Social Choice Theory....Pages 179-211 Relevant Irrelevance: The Relevance of Independence of Irrelevant Alternatives in Family Bargaining....Pages 213-223 Front Matter....Pages 225-225 Forced Trades in a Free Market....Pages 227-252 Unequal Exchange, Assets, and Power: Recent Developments in Exploitation Theory....Pages 253-287 The Merits of Merit Wants....Pages 289-308 An Extraordinary Maximizing Utilitarianism....Pages 309-334 Lindahl and Equilibrium....Pages 335-362 Front Matter....Pages 363-363 An Interview with Nick Baigent....Pages 365-377