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Domain conditions in social choice theory /

"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 '...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Gaertner, Wulf
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.