Amartya K. Sen Book order (chronological)

Examines the explosive problems of our time and shows how we can move towards peace as firmly as we have spiralled towards war. In this book, the author argues that we are becoming increasingly divided along lines of religion and culture, ignoring the many other ways in which people see themselves, from class and profession to morals and politics.

The Handbook of Social Choice and Welfare, in two volumes, features essays on social choice theory and welfare economics. The first volume is divided into four parts. Part 1 focuses on Arrovian impossibility theorems, exploring the implications of the majority cycle identified by Condorcet and surveying various escape routes from such results. Part 2 examines the operation and performance of voting schemes and cost-sharing mechanisms, alongside modern theories of incentives and mechanism design. Part 3 delves into the structure of social choice rules, discussing positional rules of collective decision-making, game-theoretic aspects of committee voting, and the implications of interpersonal comparisons of welfare. It critically assesses utilitarianism as a theory of justice and surveys the foundations of measuring inequality and poverty. An extensive introduction by Kotaro Suzumura contextualizes these topics within the historical background of social choice theory, highlighting the impact of Arrow's work and the socialist planning controversy. The Handbook aims to provide an accessible overview of contemporary social choice theory and welfare economics, offering insights into human well-being and collective decision-making, while serving as a resource for evaluating new scholarship and synthesizing existing research.

In this elegant critique, Amartya Sen argues that welfare economics can be enriched by paying more explicit attention to ethics, and that modern ethical studies can also benefit from a closer contact with economies. He argues further that even predictive and descriptive economics can be helped by making more room for welfare-economic considerations in the explanation of behaviour.