Social Choice and the Mathematics of Manipulation (Outlooks)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: May 9, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 190
ISBN-13: 9780521810524
Subjects: Combinatorics & graph theory; Science/Mathematics; Mathematics; Social choice; General; Political Process - Elections; Mathematics / General; Mathematical models; Game theory; Political science; Voting
First sentence: In a capitalist democracy there are, according to Nobel Laureate Kenneth J. Arrow (Arrow, 1950), "essentially two ways by which social choices can be made: voting, typically used to make 'political' decisions, and the market mechanism, typically used to make 'economic' decisions."