Social Choice Theory: An Introduction

✍ Scribed by Prof. Jerry S. Kelly (auth.)

Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year: 1988
Tongue: English
Leaves: 173
Edition: 1
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

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 give the student just enough technical background to be able to understand these ideas in a logically rigorous way. This is done through a set of 250 exercises that constitute the heart of the book and which differentiate this book from all other texts in social choice theory.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-XI
What is Social Choice Theory?....Pages 1-3
Simple Majority Voting....Pages 4-14
The Voting Paradox....Pages 15-22
Single-Peakedness....Pages 23-35
Chaos....Pages 36-49
Other Voting Extensions....Pages 50-56
Social Choice Rules....Pages 57-79
Arrow’s Impossibility Theorem....Pages 80-87
Power....Pages 88-92
Rights....Pages 93-100
Strategy-Proofness....Pages 101-118
Counterthreats....Pages 119-132
Approval Voting....Pages 133-143
Mistakes....Pages 144-150
Back Matter....Pages 151-165

✦ Subjects

Economics general

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