Author

Publication

2001-09-24 - Cambridge University Press

Language

English

Word Count

41,500 words, Guess

Page Count

166 pages

Physical Format

Hardcover

Identifiers

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Classifications

  • LCCHB846.8 .G34 2001
  • LCCHB846.8 .G34 2001eb

Description

"Wulf Gaertner provides a comprehensive account of an important and complex issue within social choice theory: how to establish a social welfare function while restricting the spectrum of individual preferences in a sensible way. Gaertner's starting point is K. J. Arrow's famous 'Impossibility Theorem', which showed that no welfare function could exist if an unrestricted domain of preferences is to be satisfied, together with some other appealing conditions. A number of leading economists have tried to provide avenues out of this 'impossibility' by restricting the variety of preferences: here, Gaertner provides a clear and detailed account, using standardized mathematical notation, of well over 40 theorems associated with domain conditions." "Domain Conditions in Social Choice Theory will be an essential addition to the library of social choice theory for scholars and their advanced graduate students."--BOOK JACKET.

First Sentence

The theory of social choice is abundant with impossibility theorems.

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Other Editions

  • Domain Conditions in Social Choice TheoryHardcoverCambridge University Press2001-09-24

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