Consumer Sovereignty and Human Interests - Rilegato

Penz, G. Peter

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ISBN 10: 0521265711 ISBN 13: 9780521265713

Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 1986

Riassunto

This book, published in 1986, addresses questions concerned with a central normative principle in contemporary assessments of economic policies and systems.

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Descrizione del libro

This book, published in 1986, addresses questions concerned with a central normative principle in contemporary assessments of economic policies and systems. What does 'consumer sovereignty' mean? Is consumer sovereignty an appropriate principle for the optimisation and evaluation of the design and performance of economic policies, institutions and systems?

Contenuti

1. Introduction; Part I. Consumer sovereignty: 2. The interest conception of consumer sovereignty; Part II. The range of wants: 3. Consumer sovereignty and private-want satisfaction; 4. Social wants, normative concerns, and interests; Part III. The quality of wants: 5. Limits to individual rationality; 6. The development of preferences and the evaluation circularity; Part IV. Measuring want satisfaction: 7. The comparability problem of the want-satisfaction principle; Part V. Human interests and deprivation: 8. Objective conceptions of human interests; 9. Deprivation under market competition and other coordination mechanisms: an illustrative evaluation.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 1986
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0521265711
• ISBN 13: 9780521265713
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 256
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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