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  • The Limits of Organization

    by Kenneth J. Arrow ...
    The tension between what we wish for and what we can get, between values and opportunities, exists even at the purely individual level. A hermit on a mountain may value warm clothing and yet be hard-pressed to make it from the leaves, bark, or skins he can find. But when many people are competing with each other for satisfaction of their wants, learning how to exploit what is available becomes ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Social Choice and Individual Values: Third Edition

    by Kenneth J. Arrow ...
    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 ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

  • Social Choice and Individual Values

    by Kenneth Joseph Arrow ...
    Kenneth Arrow's monograph "Social Choice and Individual Values" and a theorem within it created modern social choice theory, a rigorous melding of social ethics and voting theory with an economic flavor. The work culminated in what Arrow called the "General Possibility Theorem," better known thereafter as Arrow's (impossibility) theorem. The theorem states that, absent restrictions on either ... Read more

    $4.18 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Social Choice and Individual Values: Third Edition

    by Kenneth J. Arrow ...
    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 ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

  • Social Choice and Individual Values: Third Edition

    by Kenneth J. Arrow ...
    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 ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

  • Social Choice and Individual Values: Third Edition

    by Kenneth J. Arrow ...
    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 ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

  • On Ethics and Economics

    Conversations with Kenneth J. Arrow

    by Kenneth J. Arrow ...
    Part intellectual autobiography and part exposition of complex yet contemporary economic ideas, this lively conversation with renowned scholar and public intellectual Kenneth J. Arrow focuses on economics and politics in light of history, current events, and philosophy as well. Reminding readers that economics is about redistribution and thus about how we treat each other, Arrow shows that the ... Read more

    $96.99 CAD

  • Public Investment, the Rate of Return, and Optimal Fiscal Policy

    by Kenneth J. Arrow, Mordecai Kruz ...
    Series series RFF Environmental and Resource Economics Set
    This book, co-authored by the Nobel-prized economist, Kenneth Arrow, considers public expenditures in the context of modern growth theory. It analyzes optimal growth with public capital. A theory of 'controllability' is developed and injected into public economics and growth models. Originally published in 1970 ... Read more

    $365.99 CAD

  • The Arrow Impossibility Theorem

    by Eric Maskin, Amartya Sen ...
    Series series Kenneth J. Arrow Lecture Series
    Kenneth J. Arrow's pathbreaking "impossibility theorem" was a watershed innovation in the history of welfare economics, voting theory, and collective choice, demonstrating that there is no voting rule that satisfies the four desirable axioms of decisiveness, consensus, nondictatorship, and independence.In this book Eric Maskin and Amartya Sen explore the implications of Arrow's theorem. Sen ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • Human Well-Being and Economic Goals

    Edited by Frank Ackerman, David Kiron, Neva R. Goodwin, Jonathan Harris, Kevin Gallagher ...
    Series series Frontier Issues in Economic Thought
    What are the ends of economic activity? According to neoclassical theory, efficient interaction of the profit-maximizing "ideal producer" and the utility-maximizing "ideal consumer" will eventually lead to some sort of social optimum. But is that social optimum the same as human well-being? Human Well-Being and Economic Goals addresses that issue, considering such questions as:Does the ... Read more

    $46.99 CAD

  • The Economy As An Evolving Complex System

    by Philip W. Anderson, Kenneth Arrow, David Pines ...
    This book proceeds from a meeting at the Santa Fe Institute where economists and physical and biological scientists came together to discuss a conceptual framework incorporating a more appropriate mathematics with a greatly strengthened capacity to deal simultaneously with multiple variables, nonlinearity, incomplete information and dynamical processes. ... Read more

    $130.99 CAD

  • Handbook of Social Choice and Welfare

    Edited by Kenneth J. Arrow, A. Sen, Kotaro Suzumura ...
    Series Book 2 - Handbooks in Economics
    This second part of a two-volume set continues to describe economists' efforts to quantify the social decisions people necessarily make and the philosophies that those choices define. Contributors draw on lessons from philosophy, history, and other disciplines, but they ultimately use editor Kenneth Arrow's seminal work on social choice as a jumping-off point for discussing ways to incentivize, ... Read more

    $145.99 CAD