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Social Multi-Criteria Evaluation for a Sustainable Economy

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Authors:
  1. Giuseppe Munda

    1. Joint Research Centre of the European Commission (JRC), Institute for the Protection and Security of the Citizen (IPSC) Econometrics and Applied Statistics Unit (EAS), Ispra (VA), Italy
      Department of Economics and Economic History Institute of Environmental Sciences and Technologies, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra (Barcelona), Spain

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Methodological Foundations and Operational Consequences of Social Multi-Criteria Evaluation (SMCE)

    1. Introduction

      Pages 3-17

    2. Dealing with a Complex World: Multiple Dimensions, Values and Scales

      Pages 19-34

    3. Operationalizing Technical and Social Incommensurability in an SMCE Framework

      Pages 35-54

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 185-210
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About this book

The real world is characterized by deep complexity. May be a rather unremarkable observation, yet it has important implications on the manner policy problems are represented and decision-making is framed. Is contemporary democracy compatible with science in real-world policy-making? This book gives answers in the affirmative. It also asserts that this congruence can have positive implications not only in terms of economic prosperity but also when dealing with the difficult sustainability policy problems of our millennium. To address contemporary issues economic science will have to expand its empirical relevance by introducing more and more realistic assumptions to its models. One of the most interesting research orientations in recent times in the field of public economics is the explicit attempt to take account of political constraints, interest groups and collusion effects. One of the main novelties of this book is its establishment of a clear relationship between social and public choice theories on one hand, and multiple criteria decision analysis on the other. The pioneering research developed by Arrow and Raynaud (1986) has shown that the relationships between multi-criteria decision theory and social choice are clear and relevant. The main directions of cross-fertilization between these research fields are twofold: 1. Multi-criteria decision theory can be an adequate framework for applied social (and public) choice. 2. Social choice can produce interesting theoretical results for ensuring the ax- matic consistency needed by multi-criterion aggregation conventions.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Joint Research Centre of the European Commission (JRC), Institute for the Protection and Security of the Citizen (IPSC) Econometrics and Applied Statistics Unit (EAS), Ispra (VA), Italy

    Giuseppe Munda

  • Department of Economics and Economic History Institute of Environmental Sciences and Technologies, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra (Barcelona), Spain

    Giuseppe Munda

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Social Multi-Criteria Evaluation for a Sustainable Economy

  • Authors: Giuseppe Munda

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-73703-2

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Business and Economics, Business and Management (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2008

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-73702-5Published: 07 December 2007

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-09286-2Published: 19 October 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-73703-2Published: 22 December 2007

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVII, 210

  • Topics: Operations Research/Decision Theory, Economic Policy, Environmental Economics

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