On Modelling Individual Rights: Some Conceptual Issues

Prasanta Pattanaik
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Prasanta Pattanaik: University Of California

Chapter 12 in Social Choice Re-Examined, 1996, pp 100-128 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract The purpose of this paper is to review some conceptual issues relating to individual rights in the theory of social choice and welfare economics. In his path-breaking contribution, Sen (1970a, 1970b) introduced the first formal formulation of individual rights in social choice theory. Since then, several writers have raised critical questions regarding the appropriateness of this formulation and have explored alternative approaches: see Nozick (1974), Bernholz (1974), Gärdenfors (1981), Gibbard (1982), Barry (1985), Sugden (1981, 1985a), Gaertner, Pattanaik and Suzumura (1992), Gaertner (1993), Suzumura (1990), Deb (1989, 1990), Pattanaik (1994a, 1994b), Pattanaik and Suzumura (1994a, 1994b) and Seidl (1986). These questions, in their turn, have led Sen (1983, 1992) and Riley (1989, 1990) to defend and elaborate further the original formulation of Sen. While the debate has clarified several points, there still remain many ambiguities and disagreements even about what would seem to be purely logical points. In this paper, I seek to pursue further some of these issues that have emerged from several recent contributions; see Gaertner, Pattanaik and Suzumura (1992), Sen (1992) and Riley (1989, 1990) among others.

Keywords: Nash Equilibrium; Social Choice; Social Outcome; Game Form; Preference Profile (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1996
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-25214-5_9

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