Collective preference and choice
By: Shmuel Nitzan
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 255
ISBN-13: 9780521897259; 9780521722131
Subjects: Mathematical models; Mathematisches Modell; Social choice; Group decision making; Kollektiventscheidung
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [246]-250) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: The reason for the problems; title: Brief overview of the problems; title: The relationship between preferences and choice; title: Do social preferences exist?; title: Arrow's and Sen's impossibility theorems; title: The desirable decision rule: axiomatization; title: Rule selection based on compromise with the unanimity criterion; title: Paradoxes of voting; title: Majority tyranny; title: The problems of inefficient provision of public goods; title: Do individuals reveal their true preferences?