Overview
- Presents conversations with the founding fathers of modern social choice and welfare theory
- Offers brief history of social choice and welfare theory
- Includes interviews with Nobel Laureates, such as Kenneth Arrow, John Harsanyi, Paul Samuelson, and Amartya Sen
Part of the book series: Studies in Choice and Welfare (WELFARE)
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Foundations
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Keywords
About this book
This volume presents interviews that have been conducted from the 1980s to the present with important scholars of social choice and welfare theory. Starting with a brief history of social choice and welfare theory written by the book editors, it features 15 conversations with four Nobel Laureates and other key scholars in the discipline.
The volume is divided into two parts. The first part presents four conversations with the founding fathers of modern social choice and welfare theory: Kenneth Arrow, John Harsanyi, Paul Samuelson, and Amartya Sen. The second part includes conversations with scholars who made important contributions to the discipline from the early 1970s onwards. This book will appeal to anyone interested in the history of economics, and the history of social choice and welfare theory in particular.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Maurice Salles is Professor (emeritus) of Economics at the University of Caen-Normandy (France). He was coordinating editor of the Springer journal Social Choice and Welfare from 1984 to 2011 and President of the Society for Social Choice and Welfare in 2012/13. He is Editor-in-Chief of the Springer book series “Studies in Choice and Welfare". Moreover, Maurice is honorary research associate at CPNSS at the London School of Economics and member of the Murat Sertel Center at Bilgi University in Istanbul. He is presently working on the history of social choice theory, on (im)possibility of social choice with Nash independence of irrelevant alternatives and on the mathematical methods of social choice and voting theory.
Marc Fleurbaey is CNRS researcher and Professor at Paris School of Economics and Ecole normale supérieure (France). Until June 2020, he was Robert E. Kuenne Professor of Economics and Humanistic Studies and Professor ofPublic Affairs at Princeton University (USA). Author of Beyond GDP (with Didier Blanchet, OUP 2013), A Theory of Fairness and Social Welfare (with François Maniquet, CUP 2011), and Fairness, Responsibility and Welfare (OUP, 2008), he is one of the initiators of the International Panel on Social Progress, and lead author of its Manifesto for Social Progress (CUP 2018). He is a former editor of Social Choice and Welfareand Economics and Philosophy. He is Editor-in-Chief of the Springer book series “Studies in Choice and Welfare".
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Conversations on Social Choice and Welfare Theory - Vol. 1
Editors: Marc Fleurbaey, Maurice Salles
Series Title: Studies in Choice and Welfare
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-62769-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-62768-3Published: 31 March 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-62771-3Published: 01 April 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-62769-0Published: 30 March 2021
Series ISSN: 1614-0311
Series E-ISSN: 2197-8530
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 334
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Microeconomics, History of Economic Thought/Methodology, Public Economics, Political Philosophy, Philosophy of Mathematics