Issue 2-3/2005
The history of Social Choice
Content (18 Articles)
Original Paper
De jure naturae et gentium: Samuel von Pufendorf's contribution to social choice theory and economics
Wulf Gaertner
Original Paper
“Axiom, theorem, corollary &c.”: Condorcet and mathematical economics
Emma Rothschild
Original Paper
The intellectual contribution of Condorcet to the founding of the US Republic 1785–1800
Norman Schofield
Original Paper
The pre-history of Kenneth Arrow's social choice and individual values
Patrick Suppes
Original Paper
An interview with Paul Samuelson: welfare economics, “old” and “new”, and social choice theory
Kotaro Suzumura
Original Paper
The news of the death of welfare economics is greatly exaggerated
Marc Fleurbaey, Philippe Mongin
Original Paper
Social choice theory and the “Centre de Mathématique Sociale”: some historical notes
Bernard Monjardet
Original Paper
Going from theory to practice: the mixed success of approval voting
Steven J. Brams, Peter C. Fishburn
Original Paper
Voting power measurement: a story of misreinvention
Dan S. Felsenthal, Moshé Machover
Original Paper
The launching of ‘social choice and welfare’ and the creation of the ‘society for social choice and welfare’
Maurice Salles