Kenneth J. Arrow

PrefaceThese two volumes are modest attempts to capture and convey the spirit, essence, controversies, richness, variety, achievements and failures of some major advances in contemporary economics. They make no pretence at being comprehensive surveys of contemporary economics, nor at an...

Introduction The current models used in operations research for the multicriterion ranking of a finite set of alternatives often lack firm (mathematical) foundations. This book intends to derive, from the lessons of social choice theory, possible foundations for multicriterion models effective...