Social Multi-Criteria Evaluation for a Sustainable Economy
The real world is characterized by deep complexity. May be a rather unremarkable observation, yet it has important implications on the manner policy problems are represented and decision-making is framed. Is contemporary democracy compatible with science
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Giuseppe Munda
Social Multi-Criteria Evaluation for a Sustainable Economy
Giuseppe Munda Joint Research Centre of the European Commission (JRC) Institute for the Protection and Security of the Citizen (IPSC) Econometrics and Applied Statistics Unit (EAS) TP 361 21020 Ispra (VA) Italy [email protected] and Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona Department of Economics and Economic History Institute of Environmental Sciences and Technologies 08193 Bellaterra (Barcelona) Spain
ISBN-13: 978-3-540-73702-5
e-ISBN-13: 978-3-540-73703-2
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To my wife Michela and my children Sofia and Enrico “Dal primo giorno ch’io vidi il suo viso - in questa vita, infino a questa vista, - non m’è il seguire al mio cantar preciso; …” Dante Alighieri – La Divina Commedia, “Paradiso, XXX, 28–33”.
Preface
The real world is characterized by deep complexity. May be a rather unremarkable observation, yet it has important implications on the manner policy problems are represented and decision-making is framed. Is contemporary democracy compatible with science in real-world policy-making? This book gives answers in the affirmative. It also asserts that this congruence can have positive implications not only in terms of economic prosperity but also when dealing with the difficult sustainability policy problems of our millennium. To address contemporary issues economic science will have to expand its empirical relevance by introducing more and more realistic assumptions to its models. One of the most interesting research orientations in recent times in the field of public economics is the explicit attempt to take account of political constraints, interest groups and collusion effects. One of the main novelties of this book is its establishment of a clear relationship between social and public choice theories on one hand, and multiple criteria decision analysis on the other. The pioneering research developed by Arrow and Raynaud (1986) has shown that the relationships between multi-criteria decision theory and social choice are clear and relevant. The main directions of cross-fertilizat
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