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List of figures; List of tables; Preface; Acknowledgments; Part I.Introduction: 1. The reason for the problems; 2. Brief overview of theproblems; 3. The relationship between preferences and choice; Part II.Different Preferences: 4. Do social preferences exist? Arrow's and Sen'simpossibility theorems; 5. The desirable collective decision rule:axiomatization; 6. Rule selection based on the compromise with the unanimitycriterion; 7. Paradoxes of voting; 8. Majority tyranny and expression ofpreference intensity; 9. The problem of inefficient provision of publicgoods; 10. Do individuals reveal their true preferences?; Part III. IdenticalPreferences - Different Decisional Skills: 11. Which rule is better: theexpert rule or the simple majority rule? Decisional errors in dichotomouschoice and Condorcet's jury theorem; 12. The optimal decision rule underuncertain dichotomous choice; References; Index.