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| Author: | Sen, A. |
| Title: | Rationality and social choice |
| Journal: | American Economic Review
1995 : MAR, VOL. 85:1, p. 1-24 |
| Index terms: | RATIONALITY SOCIAL CHOICE ECONOMICS |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | The idea of using reason to identify and promote better - or more acceptable - societies and to eliminate intolerable deprivations of different kinds, has powerfully moved people in the past and continues to do so now. In this lecture the author discusses some aspects of this question which have received attention in the recent literature in social-choice and public-choice theories. Rational use of the opportunities offered by modern science and technology is a powerful challenge today. |
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