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Author Gaertner, Wulf

Title Domain conditions in social choice theory / Wulf Gaertner
Published Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 153 pages)
Contents 1. Introduction -- 2. Notation, definitions, and two fundamental theorems -- 3. The existence of collective choice rules under exclusion conditions for finite sets of discrete alternatives -- 4. Arrovian social welfare functions, nonmanipulable voting procedures and stable group decision functions -- 5. Restrictions on the distribution of individuals' preferences -- 6. The existence of social choice rules in n-dimensional continuous space -- 7. Concluding remarks
Summary "Wulf Gaertner provides a comprehensive account of an important and complex issue within social choice theory: how to establish a social welfare function while restricting the spectrum of individual preferences in a sensible way. Gaertner's starting point is K.J. Arrow's famous 'Impossibility Theorem', which showed that no welfare function could exist if an unrestricted domain of preferences is to be satisfied, together with some other appealing conditions. A number of leading economists have tried to provide avenues out of this 'impossibility' by restricting the variety of preferences: here, Gaertner provides a clear and detailed account, using standardized mathematical notation, of well over 40 theorems associated with domain conditions."
"Domain Conditions in Social Choice Theory will be an essential addition to the library of social choice theory for scholars and their advanced graduate students."--Jacket
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 131-145) and index
Notes English
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Subject Social choice -- Mathematical models
Decision making -- Mathematical models.
PSYCHOLOGY -- Social Psychology.
Decision making -- Mathematical models
Social choice -- Mathematical models
Kollektiventscheidung
Mathematisches Modell
Social choice.
Voorkeur.
Wiskundige modellen.
Besliskunde.
Domein (wiskunde)
Existentie van oplossingen.
Form Electronic book
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