Choice, Welfare, and Measurement

by Amartya Sen

Book Overview

In the course of his distinguished career, Amartya K. Sen has scrutinized the foundations of economic theory and analysis. He has brought into sharper focus such concepts as choice, preference, rationality, aggregation, evaluation, and measurement, and applied these concepts to the economic issues underlying universal social concerns, among them inequality, unemployment, poverty, human welfare, liberty, rights, justice. The twenty essays in this book...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262192144
• ISBN13: 9780262192149
• Release Date: January 1983
• Publisher: MIT Press (MA)
• Length: 460 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.