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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Nitzan, Shmuel
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Subjects:
Group decision making > Mathematical models.
Social choice > Mathematical models.
Décision de groupe > Modèles mathématiques.
Choix collectif > Modèles mathématiques.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Negotiating.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS > Interpersonal Relations.
Group decision making > Mathematical models
Social choice > Mathematical models
Kollektiventscheidung
Mathematisches Modell
Gruppenentscheidung
Entscheidungstheorie
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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?

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