Preface                                                          vii
Introduction                                                     1

Part I: Choice and Preference
1 Choice Functions and Revealed Preference                      41
2 Behaviour and the Concept of Preference                       54
3 Choice, Orderings and Morality                                74
4 Rational Fools: A Critique of the Behavioural Foundations of
    Economic Theory                                              84

Part II: Preference Aggregation
5 A Possibility Theorem on Majority Decisions                  109
6 Quasi-transitivity, Rational Choice and Collective Decisions  118
7 Necessary and Sufficient Conditions for Rational Choice under 
  Majority Decision with P. K. Pattanaik                        134
8 Social Choice Theory: A Re-examination                       158

Part III: Welfare Comparisons and Social Choice
9 Interpersonal Aggregation and Partial Comparability      203
10 On Ignorance and Equal Distribution                          222
11 On Weights and Measures: Informational Constraints in Social
    Welfare Analysis                                            226
12 Interpersonal Comparisons of Welfare                         264





Part IV: Non-utility Information
13 The Impossibility of a Paretian Liberal                     285
14 Liberty, Unanimity and Rights                               291
15 Personal Utilities and Public Judgements: or What's Wrong
    with Welfare Economics?                                    327
16 Equality of What?                                           353

Part V: Social Measurement
17 Poverty: An Ordinal Approach to Measurement                 373
18 Real National Income                                        388
19 Ethical Measurement of Inequality: Some Difficulties      416
20 Description as Choice                                      432