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Collective preference and choice /

Collective decision-making is a familiar feature of our social, political, and economic lives. It ranges from the relatively trivial (e.g. the choice of the next family car) to the globally significant (e.g. whether or not a country should go to war). Yet, whether trivial or globally significant, su...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Nitzan, Shmuel
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The reason for the problems
  • Brief overview of the problems
  • The relationship between preferences and choice
  • Do social preferences exist?
  • Arrow's and Sen's impossibility theorems
  • The desirable decision rule: axiomatization
  • Rule selection based on compromise with the unanimity criterion
  • Paradoxes of voting
  • Majority tyranny
  • The problems of inefficient provision of public goods
  • Do individuals reveal their true preferences?