04373nam 2200649Ia 450 991079180220332120230207232812.00-674-05921-210.4159/9780674059214(CKB)2560000000071274(EBL)3300893(SSID)ssj0000467944(PQKBManifestationID)12167749(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000467944(PQKBWorkID)10496760(PQKB)10044627(MiAaPQ)EBC3300893(Au-PeEL)EBL3300893(CaPaEBR)ebr10448662(OCoLC)705930482(DE-B1597)585416(DE-B1597)9780674059214(EXLCZ)99256000000007127420100401d2010 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrConsistency, choice, and rationality[electronic resource] /Walter Bossert and Kotaro SuzumuraCambridge, Mass. Harvard University Press20101 online resource (230 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-674-05299-4 Includes bibliographical references and index.""Contents ""; ""Preface ""; ""I. Foundations ""; ""1. Historical Background ""; ""1.1 Suzumura Consistency ""; ""1.2 Rational Choice as Purposive Behavior ""; ""1.3 Samuelson's Weak Axiom ""; ""1.4 Houthakker's Axiom ""; ""1.5 General Choice Functions ""; ""1.6 Rational Choice: An Outlook ""; ""1.7 Reference-Dependent Choice ""; ""1.8 External Norms ""; ""1.9 Welfare Economics and Social Choice Theory ""; ""1.10 Beyond Finite-Population Social Choice ""; ""2. Mathematical Background ""; ""2.1 Binary Relations ""; ""2.2 Greatest and Maximal Elements ""; ""2.3 Extensions of Relations """"2.4 Filters and Ultrafilters """"II. Rationalizability on General Domains ""; ""3. Definitions of Rationalizability ""; ""3.1 Preliminaries ""; ""3.2 Greatest-Element Rationalizability ""; ""3.3 Maximal-Element Rationalizability ""; ""3.4 A Synthesis ""; ""4. Characterizations ""; ""4.1 A Preliminary Result ""; ""4.2 Three Special Cases ""; ""4.3 A Unifed Approach ""; ""4.4 Summary ""; ""III. Rationalizability on Specific Domains ""; ""5. Domain Closedness Properties ""; ""5.1 Additional Choice Coherence Axioms ""; ""5.2 Logical Relationships ""; ""5.3 Closedness under Intersection """"5.4 Closedness under Union """"6. Cardinality-Complete Domains ""; ""6.1 Base Domains ""; ""6.2 Logical Relationships on Base Domains ""; ""6.3 Characterizations on Base Domains ""; ""6.4 Base Domains and Closedness under Union ""; ""IV. Alternative Notions of Rationalizability ""; ""7. Non-deteriorating Choice ""; ""7.1 Individual Non-deteriorating Choice ""; ""7.2 Characterization of ND-Rationalizability ""; ""7.3 The Multi-agent Case ""; ""7.4 Characterizing Efficient and Non-deteriorating Choice ""; ""8. External Norms and Rational Choice ""; ""8.1 Internal Coherence of Choice """"8.2 Norm-Conditional Choice """"8.3 Norm-Conditional Rationalizability ""; ""8.4 Characterization Results ""; ""V. Topics in Social Choice Theory ""; ""9. Collective Choice Rules ""; ""9.1 Weakening Social Coherence Properties ""; ""9.2 Earlier Results ""; ""9.3 Generalizations of the Pareto Rule ""; ""9.4 A Characterization ""; ""10. Decisiveness and Infinite Populations ""; ""10.1 Decisive Coalitions, Filters, and Ultrafilters ""; ""10.2 Decisiveness without Social Richness Assumptions ""; ""10.3 Intergenerational Social Choice ""; ""10.4 Multi-profile Stationarity ""; ""References """"Index ""An impressive and magisterial work from the top contributors in the world on choice-demand theory.Rational choice theorySocial choiceMathematical modelsWelfare economicsRational choice theory.Social choiceMathematical models.Welfare economics.302.13015118Bossert Walter1481935Suzumura Kōtarō1944-119902MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910791802203321Consistency, choice, and rationality3699243UNINA