Social Choice: A Framework for Collective Decisions and Individual Judgements - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521310512 ISBN 13: 9780521310512

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1992

Synopsis

This textbook provides a survey of the literature of social choice. It integrates the ethical aspects of the subject (discussing potentially desirable conditions for social judgments), with positive aspects of decision mechanisms that center on the revelation of true preferences. The book draws together the work of a great many papers in a common notation, pointing out interrelations that are often missing in specialist papers.

About this title

Book Description:

A survey of the literature of social choice integrates the ethical aspects of the subject (discussing potentially desirable conditions for social judgments), with positive aspects of decision mechanisms that center on the revelation of true preferences.

From the Back Cover:

This book provides a survey of the literature of social choice. It integrates the ethical aspects of the subject (discussing potentially desirable conditions for social judgements), with positive aspects of decision mechanisms that centre on the revelation of true preferences. The literature on the subject presently consists of a great many papers. This book draws them together in common notation and points out interpretations which are often missing in specialist papers. Applications in economics, electoral politics and ethics are discussed. The book will be used by senior undergraduate and graduate students of economics, political science and philosophy as a text book in the subject.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0521310512
• ISBN 13: 9780521310512
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 164
• Editor: Craven John