William Thomson

How to Divide When There Isn't Enough

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

An introduction to the modern theory of economic design, it develops an up-to-date treatment of the adjudication of conflicting claims.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 508
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. September 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 34mm
• Gewicht: 970g
• ISBN-13: 9781107194625
• ISBN-10: 1107194628
• Artikelnr.: 55896953

Autorenporträt

William Thomson is the Elmer Milliman Professor of Economics at the University of Rochester, New York. He is the author of several books including A Guide for the Young Economist (2011) which has appeared in four translations, and over one hundred articles. In 2001, he won the University Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching at the University of Rochester. He is a Fellow of the Econometric Society, the Society for Economic Theory, and the Game Theory Society.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. Inventory of division rules
3. Basic properties of division rules
4. Monotonicity properties
5. Claims truncation invariance and minimal rights first
6. Composition down and composition up
7. Duality
8. Other invariance properties
9. Operators
10. Variable-population model: consistency and related properties
11. Constructing consistent extensions of two-claimant rules
12. Variable-population model: other properties
13. Ranking awards vectors and ranking rules
14. Modeling claims problems as games
15. Variants and generalizations of the base model
16. Summary graphs and tables
17. Appendices.