The launching of `social choice and welfare' and the creation of the `Society for Social Choice and Welfare'

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Authors Maurice Salles

Publication date 18 August 2006

Published in Social Choice and Welfare (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/560/1/VPP04_11.pdf

zbMATH Keywords

econometric

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 20th century (01A60)

Review text

The author discusses the appearance of the econometric discipline previously (in the 1970s) called ``Social choice theory and voting but soon renamed ``Social choice and welfare and he refers to \textit{P. K. Pattanaik} and \textit{M. Salles}' book thus entitled (Amsterdam, North Holland, 1983; Zbl 0512.00031). He does not describe the essence of either the discipline or the book but mentions in passing that Condorcet and Borda studied voting procedures from a mathematical standpoint. The author is Secretary of the Society for Social Choice and Welfare (established 1992) whose prehistory consisted in launching a periodical of the same name.

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• Foreword to the special issue: ``Social choice theory: golden jubilee

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