Individual and Collective Choice and Social Welfare Essays in Honor

The papers in this volume explore various issues relating to theories of individual and collective choice, and theories of social welfare. The topics include individual and collective rationality, motivation and intention in economics, coercion, public go

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Constanze Binder Giulio Codognato Miriam Teschl Yongsheng Xu Editors

Individual and Collective Choice and Social Welfare Essays in Honor of Nick Baigent

Studies in Choice and Welfare

Editor-in-Chief M. Fleurbaey, USA M. Salles, France

Series Editors B. Dutta, United Kingdom W. Gaertner, Germany C. Herrero Blanco, Spain B. Klaus, Switzerland P.K. Pattanaik, USA K. Suzumura, Japan W. Thomson, USA

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Constanze Binder • Giulio Codognato • Miriam Teschl • Yongsheng Xu Editors

Individual and Collective Choice and Social Welfare Essays in Honor of Nick Baigent

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Editors Constanze Binder Department of Philosophy Erasmus University Rotterdam Rotterdam The Netherlands

Giulio Codognato Department of Economics University of Udine Udine Italy

Miriam Teschl Aix-Marseille University Aix-Marseille School of Economics, CNRS & EHESS Marseille France

Yongsheng Xu Department of Economics Georgia State University Atlanta Georgia USA

ISSN 1614-0311 Studies in Choice and Welfare ISBN 978-3-662-46438-0 DOI 10.1007/978-3-662-46439-7

ISSN 2197-8530

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ISBN 978-3-662-46439-7

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Preface

This volume brings together papers, some of which were first presented at the Central European Program in Economic Theory (CEPET) Workshop held in honor of Nick Baigent at the University of Udine, Udine, Italy, on 2–4 June 2010. All the papers in the volume have gone through the usual process of review by anonymous referees. We have been helped by many individuals and institutions in organizing the Workshop and putting this volume together. We are grateful to the authors of this volume for contrib