Conversations on Social Choice and Welfare Theory - Vol. 1

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Conversations on Social Choice and Welfare Theory - Vol. 1 is written by Marc Fleurbaey and published by Springer Nature. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 3030627691 (ISBN 10) and 9783030627690 (ISBN 13).

This volume presents interviews that have been conducted from the 1980s to the present with important scholars of social choice and welfare theory. Starting with a brief history of social choice and welfare theory written by the book editors, it features 15 conversations with four Nobel Laureates and other key scholars in the discipline. The volume is divided into two parts. The first part presents four conversations with the founding fathers of modern social choice and welfare theory: Kenneth Arrow, John Harsanyi, Paul Samuelson, and Amartya Sen. The second part includes conversations with scholars who made important contributions to the discipline from the early 1970s onwards. This book will appeal to anyone interested in the history of economics, and the history of social choice and welfare theory in particular.