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1、Page13Economics2054JamesFosterHarvardUniversityAmartyaSenFall2008Mondays1-3,Emerson305ExtendedSyllabusSocialChoiceandWelfareEconomicsAbasiccourseinsocialchoicetheory,itsintellectualfoundations,anditsapplications,particularlyinwelfareeconomics.Topics1.FoundationsofSocial
2、ChoiceTheory2.ImpossibilityTheorems3.CollectiveConsistency4.AccommodatingLiberty5.Welfare,InformationandMeasurement6.Dominance,InequalityandPoverty7.SubgroupConsistencyandDecomposability8.Freedom,PluralityandFlexibility9.CapabilityandPoverty10.MultidimensionalPoverty11.
3、ExternalRelationsandCapabilities12.SocialChoiceasanApproachThereisnoformalprerequisiteforthecourse,butsinceitwillincludeextensiveanalyticalandformalarguments,forstudentstakingthecourseforcredit,familiaritywithlogicalandmathematicalmodesofreasoningwillbeessential.Auditor
4、sare,however,welcometoattend,andifpracticallypossible,participateinthegeneraldiscussionsintheclass.Page13Therequirementforthecourse,inadditiontoregularattendance,isatermpaperofabout25pages(standardsize,doublespaced),whichmustbesubmittedbyJanuary12.Thetopicofthetermpaper
5、mustbediscussedandclearedbeforehand,onthebasisofaoneortwopageproposalreceivedbyusbymid-November,specificallybythetimeoftheclassonNovember17.OfficeHours:JamesFoster,LittauerM39,telephone6-5137Wednesdays1-3,noappointmentneededAmartyaSen,Littauer205,telephone5-1871and6-008
6、4Mondays11-12,noappointmentneeded,andTuesdays11-12,byappt.(slrich@fas.harvard.edu)Generalreferences:Socialchoicetheoryhasnowbecomesuchavastsubjectthatthereisnogeneraltextbookthatcoversthewholefield.Readingsaresuggestedundereachtopicchoseninthisclass.However,sincethechoi
7、ceoftopicsforthisone-semestercoursehasbeeninescapablyinfluencedbyfeasibility,itshouldbeusefulforthosewhowantacomprehensivegroundinginsocialchoice(sometimesgoingbeyondthetopicscoveredinthisclass)toreadsomegeneraltextbooksaswell.Averyusefulrecenttextbookis:Gaertner,Wulf,A
8、PrimerinSocialChoiceTheory(OxfordUniversityPress,2006).Threeothergeneralreferences:Sen,Amartya,CollectiveChoic
