Gaertner

A PRIMER IN SOCIAL CHOICE THEORY REVISED EDITION

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This introductory text explores the theory of social choice. This text is an important starting point for students grappling with the complexities of social choice theory. Rigorous yet accessible, with new chapter exercises, it avoids the use of technical language and provides an up-to-date discussion of this rapidly developing field.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press(UK)
• Seitenzahl: 234
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Juli 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 363g
• ISBN-13: 9780199565306
• ISBN-10: 0199565309
• Artikelnr.: 26569494

Autorenporträt

Wulf Gaertner is Professor of Economics at the University of Osnabrück in Germany and Fellow of Wissenschaftskolleg, Berlin. He has held several visiting posts at Tulane University, Harvard University, and the London School of Economics and Political Science, and was the recipient of the Ludwig Lachmann Research Fellowship from the LSE for the period 2006-2008. Professor Gaertner is also one of the managing editors of the journal, Social Choice and Welfare.

Inhaltsangabe

Glossary of major concepts
1: Introduction
2: Arrow's Impossibility Result
3: Majority Decision Under Restricted Domains
4: Individual Rights
5: Manipulability
6: Espacing Impossibilities: Social Choice Rules
7: Distributive Justice: Rawlsian and Utilitarian Rules
8: Cooperative Bargaining
9: Empirical Social Choice
10: A Few Steps Beyond
Hints to Exercises