Evolutionary Approach to Social Welfare
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Author_Christian Sartorius
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behavioural economics
Cardinal Utility
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collective decision making
Darwinian learning mechanisms
Empathy Altruism Hypothesis
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evolutionary basis of social norms
Fitness Landscape
function
group cooperation theory
Individual Preference Orderings
Innate Behavior
Instrumental Conditioning
Interpersonal Comparison
Knowledge Acquisition
learning
Maximum Total Utility
natural
norm formation
normative
Normative Principles
Opponent's Defection
Opponent’s Defection
Pareto Criterion
Positivist Subjectivism
principles
Proposing Player
Propositional Network
Psychic Attraction
reinforcement
selection
Social Choice Functions
Social Decision Functions
Social Preference Ordering
Social Welfare Function
traits
Unrestricted Domain
Vice Versa
welfare philosophy
White Crown Sparrows
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- ISBN 9780415323352
- Weight: 660g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 16 Oct 2003
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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While not evident immediately, social norms and values play a crucial role in the theory of social choice. In the first half of the twentieth century, the special acknowledgement by economic theory of the autonomy of individuals and their subjective view of the world had led to the serious problem that socially acceptable decisions could not be made in the absence of unanimity. In this work, social norms and values are reintroduced to overcome this shortcoming by applying a common standard and, thus, making individual preferences comparable. In particular, it is shown, how the adoption of these standards is part of every individual's social development, how the standards themselves arose in the course of social evolution and how human beings were endowed with the necessary learning mechanism by Darwinian evolution in the first place. This impressive, unique book is well informed and clearly written. It will be of great interest to all those students, academics and researchers who are interested in evolutionary economics as well as social welfare and philosophy.
Christian Sartorius is Post-doctoral research fellow in the Energy Systems Unit of the Technical University of Berlin, Germany.
