Axioms of Cooperative Decision Making

This book provides a unified and comprehensive study of welfarism, cooperative games, public decision making, and voting and social choice theory.

List of contents

Foreword Amartya Sen; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Overview; Part I. Welfarism: 1. Egalitarianism versus utilitarianism; 2. Social welfare orderings; 3. Axiomatic bargaining; 4. Cost-sharing schemes and the core; 5. Values of cooperative games; Part III. Public decision mechanisms: 6. Equal versus proportional sharing; 7. Regulated monopoly; 8. Strategyproof mechanisms; 9. Majority voting and scoring methods; 10. Strategyproofness and core stability; 11. Aggregation of preferences; Bibliography; Indexes.

Summary

Axioms of Cooperative Decision Making provides a unified and comprehensive study of welfarism, cooperative games, public decision making, and voting and social choice theory - technically heterogeneous subjects that are linked by common axioms.

Product details

• Authors: Herve Moulin, Hervi Moulin, Hervoe Moulin
• Assisted by: Andrew Chesher (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.09.2014
• EAN: 9780521360555
• ISBN: 978-0-521-36055-5
• No. of pages: 348
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 235 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 655 g
• Series: Cambridge Monographs on Mathem
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Miscellaneous