Individual Interests and Collective Action. Selected Essays.

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Acknowledgements Introduction Part I. Collective Decisions: 1. Collective decisions 2. Beyond Pareto optimality 3. The possibility of a social welfare function 4. Social action systems 5. Why so much stability? Recontracting, trustworthiness and the stability of vote exchanges 6. Collective decisions in a social system Part II. Power: 7. Political money 8. Control of collectivities and the power of a collectivity to act 9. Constitutional power in experimental health service and delivery systems 10. Legitimate and illegitimate use of power 11. Processes of concentration and dispersal of power in social systems 12. The corporate structure of the economy and its effects on income Part III. Constitutions: 13. Individual interests and collective action 14. Inequality, sociology and moral philosophy 15. Individual rights and the state 16. Rawls, Nozick and educational equality Bibliography Index.