Social Choice Re-Examined : Proceedings of the Iea Conference Held at Schloss Hernstein, Berndorf, Near Vienna, Austria (Iea Conference Volume) <1>

Since World War II the subject of social choice has grown in many and surprising ways. The links with classical and modern theories of justice and, in particular, the competing ideas of rights and utilitarianism have shown the power of formal social choice analysis in illuminating the most basic philosophical arguments about the good social life.