Wulf Gaertner

Domain Conditions in Social Choice Theory

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A most comprehensive survey of recent research in an important area of social choice theory.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 166
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Januar 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 350g
• ISBN-13: 9780521791021
• ISBN-10: 0521791022
• Artikelnr.: 33124806

Autorenporträt

WULF GAERTNER is Professor of Economics at the University of Osnabrück. He has been a Visiting Scholar at Harvard University and at the London School of Economics and Political Science and has published extensively on social choice theory in leading journals. He is one of the managing editors of the journal Social Choice and Welfare.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface and acknowledgements
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
8. References
Indexes.