Social Choice and Individual Values / Edition 3

by Kenneth J. Arrow, Eric S. Maskin

Overview

Originally published in 1951, Social Choice and Individual Values introduced “Arrow’s Impossibility Theorem” and founded the field of social choice theory in economics and political science. This new edition, including a new foreword by Nobel laureate Eric Maskin, reintroduces Arrow’s seminal book to a new generation of students and researchers.

"Far beyond a classic, this small book unleashed the ongoing explosion of interest in social choice and voting theory. A half-century later, the book remains full of profound insight: its central message, ‘Arrow’s Theorem,’ has changed the way we think.”—Donald G. Saari, author of Decisions and Elections: Explaining the Unexpected

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780300179316
Publisher:	Yale University Press
Publication date:	06/26/2012
Series:	Cowles Foundation Monographs Series , #12
Edition description:	Third Edition
Pages:	144
Sales rank:	821,120
Product dimensions:	5.10(w) x 7.90(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Kenneth J. Arrow is professor of economics emeritus, Stanford University, and a Nobel laureate. Eric S. Maskin is Albert O. Hirschman Professor, School of Social Science, Institute of Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, and a Nobel laureate.