- Title Pages
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- List of Contributors
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Why Economics Needs Ethical Theory
- Chapter 2 The Sen System of Social Evaluation
- Chapter 3 The Good Life and the Good Economy<sup>*</sup>
- Chapter 4 The Adaptation Problem, Evolution and Normative Economics<sup>*</sup>
- Chapter 5 Rights and Interests
- Chapter 6 Elements of a Theory of the Right to Development<sup>*</sup>
- Chapter 7 Rational Choice on General Domains<sup>*</sup>
- Chapter 8 Some Remarks on the Ranking of Infinite Utility Streams<sup>*</sup>
- Chapter 9 Individual Choices in a Non‐Consequentialist Framework<sup>*</sup>
- Chapter 10 The Method of Majority Decision and Rationality Conditions<sup>*</sup>
- Chapter 11 Convexity and Separability in Representing Consensus
- Chapter 12 Rights, Individual Preferences and Collective Rationality
- Chapter 13 Irrelevant Alternatives
- Chapter 14 Limited Rights and Social Choice Rules<sup>*</sup>
- Chapter 15 Dominance Criteria for Critical‐Level Generalized Utilitarianism<sup>*</sup>
- Chapter 16 The Measurement of Capabilities<sup>*</sup>
- Chapter 17 On Ultrapoverty<sup>*</sup>
- Chapter 18 Multidimensional Poverty Orderings<sup>*</sup>
- Chapter 19 External Capabilities<sup>*</sup>
- Chapter 20 On the Welfarist Rationale for Relative Poverty Lines<sup>*</sup>
- Chapter 21 Justice as Fairness and the Capability Approach<sup>*</sup>
- Chapter 22 Ungrouping Income Distributions
- Chapter 23 A Practical Proposal for Simplifying the Measurement of Income Poverty<sup>*</sup>
- Chapter 24 Concepts and Measures of Agency<sup>*</sup>
- Chapter 25 Sen's Identities
- Chapter 26 Welfare Economics and Giving for Development<sup>*</sup>
- Chapter 27 Equity and Sharing the Cost of a Public Project<sup>*</sup>
- Chapter 28 Isolation, Assurance and Rules<sup>*</sup>
- Chapter 29 Simple Formulae for Optimal Income Taxation and the Measurement of Inequality<sup>*</sup>
- Index of Names
- Index of Subjects
Rational Choice on General Domains *
Rational Choice on General Domains *
- Chapter:
- (p.103) Chapter 7 Rational Choice on General Domains*
- Source:
- Arguments for a Better World: Essays in Honor of Amartya Sen
- Author(s):
Walter Bossert (Contributor Webpage)
Kotaro Suzumura
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
The rationalizability of a choice function on general domains by means of an ordering has been analyzed thoroughly by Richter (1966; 1971), Hansson (1968), and Suzumura (1977). Moreover, characterizations of various versions of consistent rationalizability have appeared in Bossert, Sprumont, and Suzumura (2005a). However, not much seems to be known when the coherence property of quasi-transitivity or that of P-acyclicity is imposed on a rationalization. This chapter develops a unified approach in order to characterize all forms of rationalizability on general domains.
Keywords: rational choice, quasi-transitivity, P-acyclicity, consistency, choherence property
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- Title Pages
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- List of Contributors
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Why Economics Needs Ethical Theory
- Chapter 2 The Sen System of Social Evaluation
- Chapter 3 The Good Life and the Good Economy<sup>*</sup>
- Chapter 4 The Adaptation Problem, Evolution and Normative Economics<sup>*</sup>
- Chapter 5 Rights and Interests
- Chapter 6 Elements of a Theory of the Right to Development<sup>*</sup>
- Chapter 7 Rational Choice on General Domains<sup>*</sup>
- Chapter 8 Some Remarks on the Ranking of Infinite Utility Streams<sup>*</sup>
- Chapter 9 Individual Choices in a Non‐Consequentialist Framework<sup>*</sup>
- Chapter 10 The Method of Majority Decision and Rationality Conditions<sup>*</sup>
- Chapter 11 Convexity and Separability in Representing Consensus
- Chapter 12 Rights, Individual Preferences and Collective Rationality
- Chapter 13 Irrelevant Alternatives
- Chapter 14 Limited Rights and Social Choice Rules<sup>*</sup>
- Chapter 15 Dominance Criteria for Critical‐Level Generalized Utilitarianism<sup>*</sup>
- Chapter 16 The Measurement of Capabilities<sup>*</sup>
- Chapter 17 On Ultrapoverty<sup>*</sup>
- Chapter 18 Multidimensional Poverty Orderings<sup>*</sup>
- Chapter 19 External Capabilities<sup>*</sup>
- Chapter 20 On the Welfarist Rationale for Relative Poverty Lines<sup>*</sup>
- Chapter 21 Justice as Fairness and the Capability Approach<sup>*</sup>
- Chapter 22 Ungrouping Income Distributions
- Chapter 23 A Practical Proposal for Simplifying the Measurement of Income Poverty<sup>*</sup>
- Chapter 24 Concepts and Measures of Agency<sup>*</sup>
- Chapter 25 Sen's Identities
- Chapter 26 Welfare Economics and Giving for Development<sup>*</sup>
- Chapter 27 Equity and Sharing the Cost of a Public Project<sup>*</sup>
- Chapter 28 Isolation, Assurance and Rules<sup>*</sup>
- Chapter 29 Simple Formulae for Optimal Income Taxation and the Measurement of Inequality<sup>*</sup>
- Index of Names
- Index of Subjects