- Title Pages
- Preface
- Introduction
- I.1 About Choice
- I.2 Processes of Choice
- I.3 Democratic Choice
- I.4 Budget Allocation and Priority
- I.5 Ramsey's Savings Rule
- II.1 Utility Hypothesis
- II.2 Algebra of Revealed Preference
- II.3 Combinatorics of Demand
- II.4 Separable Utility
- II.5 Direct and Indirect Utility
- II.6 Efficiency and Inefficiency
- III.1 Price and Quantity Levels
- III.2 The True Index
- III.3 Fisher and Byushgens
- III.4 The Four‐Point Formula
- III.5 Wald's ‘New Formula’
- IV.1 Opportunity Models
- IV.2 Leontief's Input‐Output
- IV.3 The Market
- IV.4 Sraffa's Prices
- IV.5 General Economic Equilibrium
- IV.6 Von Neumann's Economic Model
- V.1 Optimal Programming
- V.2 Convex Programming
- V.3 Linear Programming
- V.4 Minimum Paths
- V.5 Distribution Matrices
- VI.1 Calculus of Propositions
- VI.2 Algebra of Relations
- VI.3 Intersections and Fixed Points
- Bibliography
- Index
Processes of Choice
Processes of Choice
- Chapter:
- (p.32) I.2 Processes of Choice
- Source:
- Logic of Choice and Economic Theory
- Author(s):
S. N. Afriat
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
This chapter deals with choice functions and preferences, and with the search and elimination processes involved in making a choice. Its five sections are: search and elimination; binary choice; preference; revealed preference; and revealed contradictions.
Keywords: Arrow's impossibility theorem, choice, demand, democratic choice, optimum, positive association, revealed preference, voting
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- Title Pages
- Preface
- Introduction
- I.1 About Choice
- I.2 Processes of Choice
- I.3 Democratic Choice
- I.4 Budget Allocation and Priority
- I.5 Ramsey's Savings Rule
- II.1 Utility Hypothesis
- II.2 Algebra of Revealed Preference
- II.3 Combinatorics of Demand
- II.4 Separable Utility
- II.5 Direct and Indirect Utility
- II.6 Efficiency and Inefficiency
- III.1 Price and Quantity Levels
- III.2 The True Index
- III.3 Fisher and Byushgens
- III.4 The Four‐Point Formula
- III.5 Wald's ‘New Formula’
- IV.1 Opportunity Models
- IV.2 Leontief's Input‐Output
- IV.3 The Market
- IV.4 Sraffa's Prices
- IV.5 General Economic Equilibrium
- IV.6 Von Neumann's Economic Model
- V.1 Optimal Programming
- V.2 Convex Programming
- V.3 Linear Programming
- V.4 Minimum Paths
- V.5 Distribution Matrices
- VI.1 Calculus of Propositions
- VI.2 Algebra of Relations
- VI.3 Intersections and Fixed Points
- Bibliography
- Index
