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Decision Theory and Social Ethics

Issues in Social Choice

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  • © 1978

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Editors:
  1. Hans W. Gottinger

    1. University of Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany

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  2. Werner Leinfellner

    1. University of Nebraska, Lincoln, USA

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Part of the book series: Theory and Decision Library (TDLU, volume 17)

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxii
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  2. Philosophy and Ethical Principles

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Rule Utilitarianism and Decision Theory

      • John C. Harsanyi
      Pages 3-31

    3. Marx and the Utility Approach to the Ethical Foundation of Microeconomics

      • Werner Leinfellner
      Pages 33-58

    4. Endogenous Changes in Tastes: A Philosophical Discussion

      • Menahem E. Yaari
      Pages 59-98

  3. Social and Collective Choice Theory

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 99-99
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    2. Nice Decision Schemes

      • Salvador Barbera
      Pages 101-117

    3. The Distribution of Rights in Society

      • John A. Ferejohn
      Pages 119-131

    4. Acceptable Social Choice Lotteries

      • Peter C. Fishburn
      Pages 133-152

    5. Social Decision, Strategic Behavior, and Best Outcomes

      • Allan Gibbard
      Pages 153-168

    6. Cyclically Mixed Preferences—A Necessary and Sufficient Condition for Transitivity of the Social Preference Relation

      • Wulf Gaertner, Achim Heinecke
      Pages 169-185

    7. Comparative Distributive Ethics

      • Lucian Kern
      Pages 187-200

    8. Rawls’s Theory of Justice: An Impossibility Result

      • Charles R. Plott
      Pages 201-214

    9. Arrow’s Impossibility Theorem: Some New Aspects

      • Heinz J. Skala
      Pages 215-225

    10. Two Proofs of the Gibbard-Satterthwaite Theorem on the Possibility of a Strategy-Proof Social Choice Function

      • David Schmeidler, Hugo Sonnenschein
      Pages 227-234

  4. Special Topics in Social Choice

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 235-235
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    2. Ethics, Institutions and Optimality

      • Karl Borch
      Pages 237-249

    3. Complexity and Social Decision Rules

      • Hans W. Gottinger
      Pages 251-269

    4. Discrete Optimization and Social Decision Methods

      • Deepak K. Merchant
      Pages 271-287

    5. The Equity Principle in Economic Behavior

      • Reinhard Selten
      Pages 289-301
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About this book

Ethics, as one of the most respectable disciplines of philosophy, has undergone a drastic and revolutionary change in recent time. There are three main trends of this development. The first trend can be described as a tendency towards a rigorous formal and analytical language. This means simply that ethics has created beside its own formalized set­ theoretical language a variety of new formalized, logical and mathemati­ cal methods and concepts. Thus ethics has become a formalized meta­ or epidiscipline which is going to replace the traditional concepts, principles and ethical methods in the realm of social sciences. It is clear that a formalized form of ethics can be used more easily in social, economic and political theories if there are ethical conflicts to be solved. This first trend can be regarded as a conditio sine qua non for application in, and imposing ethical solutions on, social scientific theories. The second trend may be characterized as an association- or unification-tendency of a formalized and analytical ethics with decision theory. Decision theory as a new interdiscipline of social sciences is actually an assemblage of a variety of subtheories such as value-utility theory, game theory, collective decision theory, etc. Harsanyi has called this complex of subtheories a general theory of human behavior. Analytical or formal ethics is actually using this general theory of human behavior as a vehicle simply because this theory deals from the beginning with conflict solution, i. e.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany

    Hans W. Gottinger

  • University of Nebraska, Lincoln, USA

    Werner Leinfellner

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Decision Theory and Social Ethics

  • Book Subtitle: Issues in Social Choice

  • Editors: Hans W. Gottinger, Werner Leinfellner

  • Series Title: Theory and Decision Library

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-9838-4

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht, Holland 1978

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-277-0887-8Due: 30 September 1978

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-277-0937-0Published: 30 September 1978

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-009-9838-4Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: 351

  • Topics: Methodology of the Social Sciences

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