References and further reading
Arrow, K.J. (1951), Social Choice and Individual Values, 2nd edn 1963, New York: John Wiley.
Black, D. (1948), ‘On the rationale of group decision making’, Journal of Political Economy, 56 (1), 23-34.
Gaertner, W. and Y. Xu (1999), ‘On rationalizability of choice functions: a characterization of the median’,Social Choice and Welfare, 16 (4), 629-38.
Harsanyi, J.C. (1953), ‘Cardinal utility in welfare economics and in the theory of risk-taking’, Journal of Political Economy, 61 (5), 434-5.
Harsanyi, J.C. (1955), ‘Cardinal welfare, individualistic ethics, and interpersonal comparisons of utility’, Journal of Political Economy, 63 (4), 309-21.
Harsanyi, J.C. (1977), Rational Behaviour and Bargaining Equilibrium in Games and Social Situations, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Rawls, J. (1971), A Theory of Justice, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Sen, A.K. (1966), ‘A possibility theorem on majority decisions’, Econometrica, 34 (2), 491-9. Sen, A.K. (1970a), Collective Choice and Social Welfare, San Francisco, CA: Holden-Day. Sen, A.K. (1970b), ‘The impossibility of a Paretian liberal’, Journal of Political Economy, 78 (1), 152-7. Sen, A.K. (1974), ‘Informational bases of alternative welfare approaches. Aggregation and income distribution’, Journal of Public Economics, 3 (4), 387-403.
Sen, A.K. (1976), ‘Poverty: an ordinal approach to measurement’, Econometrica, 44 (2), 219-31.
Sen, A.K. (1977), ‘Rational fools: a critique of the behavioural foundations of economic theory’, Philosophy and Public Affairs, 6 (4), 317-44.
Sen, A.K. (1981), Poverty and Famines. An Essay on Entitlement and Deprivation, Oxford: Clarendon Press. Sen, A.K. (1985), Commodities and Capabilities, Amsterdam: North-Holland.
Sen, A.K. (1997), ‘Maximization and the act of choice’, Econometrica, 65 (4), 745-79.
Sen, A.K. (2009), The Idea of Justice, London: Allen Lane.