Rationality and Operators The Formal Structure of Preferences /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Cato, Susumu (Συγγραφέας)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Σειρά: SpringerBriefs in Economics,
• Θέματα: Economic theory.; Welfare economics.; Economics.; Social Choice/Welfare Economics/Public Choice.; Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods.

This unique book develops an operational approach to preference and rationality as the author employs operators over binary relations to capture the concept of rationality. A preference is a basis of individual behavior and social judgment and is mathematically regarded as a binary relation on the s...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 1 Introduction
• 1.1 The Aim of This Book
• 1.2 Rationality of Preference
• 1.3 An Operational Interpretation of Theorems of Welfare Economics
• 1.4 What Can the Operational Approach Achieve?
• 1.5 A Historical Perspective
• 1.6 The Structure of This Book
• 2 Preferences and Operators
• 2.1 Introduction
• 2.2 Binary Relations
• 2.3 Basic Results on Operators
• 2.4 Closure Operators
• 2.5 Concluding Remarks
• 3 Rationality and Operators
• 3.1 Introduction
• 3.2 Properties of Binary Relations
• 3.3 Choice Functions
• 3.4 Extensions
• 3.5 Concluding Remarks
• 4 Operations over the Set of Binary Relations
• 4.1 Introduction
• 4.2 Basic Results
• 4.3 Direct Operations over the Set of Binary Relations
• 4.4 Indirect Operations over the Set of Binary Relations
• 4.5 Concluding Remarks
• 5 Application to Welfare Economics
• 5.1 Introduction
• 5.2 Setting
• 5.3 Paretian Welfare Economics
• 5.4 The Kaldor-Hicks Compensation Principle
• 5.5 Bergsonian-Samuelson Approach of Welfare Economics
• 5.6 Concluding Remarks
• 6 Conclusion: Beyond Ordinal Operators
• 6.1 More Applications
• 6.2 Operators for Ordinal Preferences
• 6.3 Operators for Cardinal Preferences
• 6.4 Final Remarks
• Index.