Economic, Public Policy Analysis, and Democratic Theory

FAIN: FB-12316-74

Steven E. Rhoads
University of Virginia (Charlottesville, VA 22903-4833)

To investigate 1) Parts of the theoretical welfare economic literature which bear on the adequacy of the consumer sovereignty standard; 2) The relative emphasis placed on consumer sovereignty and other desirable characterstics of societal welfare in the history of economic thought; and 3) An investigation of the thought of those non-economist, democratic thinkers who did not simply equate consumer sovereignty with democracy.