G. Peter Penz

Consumer Sovereignty and Human Interests

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 260
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Mai 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 427g
• ISBN-13: 9780521070911
• ISBN-10: 0521070910
• Artikelnr.: 24725867

Inhaltsangabe

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.