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Social Choice Theory
Jerry S. Kelly
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Description for Social Choice Theory
Paperback. Num Pages: 165 pages, 8 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: KC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 244 x 170 x 10. Weight in Grams: 321.
This is a textbook introducing selected topics in formal social choice theory. Social choice theory studies group choices that are based on information about preferences of members of the group (voting rules being one important special case). This involves economics, which provides the method of modelling individual decision making; political philosophy, which provides criteria about the allocation of decision-influencing power; and game theory, which provides a framework for thinking about the strategies individuals employ in trying to influence the group choice. The goal of this book is to take basic ideas like impossibility theorems, rights exercising and strategy proofness and ... Read more
This is a textbook introducing selected topics in formal social choice theory. Social choice theory studies group choices that are based on information about preferences of members of the group (voting rules being one important special case). This involves economics, which provides the method of modelling individual decision making; political philosophy, which provides criteria about the allocation of decision-influencing power; and game theory, which provides a framework for thinking about the strategies individuals employ in trying to influence the group choice. The goal of this book is to take basic ideas like impossibility theorems, rights exercising and strategy proofness and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Germany
Number of pages
165
Condition
New
Number of Pages
165
Place of Publication
Berlin, Germany
ISBN
9783662099278
SKU
V9783662099278
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99-15
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