Three great classical economists, Adam Smith, John S. Mill, and Karl Marx, identified forms of "trouble" at work, troubles too serious to be called simply "job dissatisfaction" and many of which are still with us. Their identification and analysis have nothing to do with the labor theory of...

This note reexamines the single-profile approach to social-choice theory. If an alternative is interpreted as a social state of affairs or a history of the world, it can be argued that a multi-profile approach is inappropriate because the information profile is determined by the set of...