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An introduction to the modern theory of economic design, it develops an up-to-date treatment of the adjudication of conflicting claims.
List of contents
1. Introduction; 2. Inventory of division rules; 3. Basic properties of division rules; 4. Monotonicity properties; 5. Claims truncation invariance and minimal rights first; 6. Composition down and composition up; 7. Duality; 8. Other invariance properties; 9. Operators; 10. Variable-population model: consistency and related properties; 11. Constructing consistent extensions of two-claimant rules; 12. Variable-population model: other properties; 13. Ranking awards vectors and ranking rules; 14. Modeling claims problems as games; 15. Variants and generalizations of the base model; 16. Summary graphs and tables; 17. Appendices.
About the author
William Thomson is the Elmer Milliman Professor of Economics at the University of Rochester, New York. He is the author of several books including A Guide for the Young Economist (2011) which has appeared in four translations, and over one hundred articles. In 2001, he won the University Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching at the University of Rochester. He is a Fellow of the Econometric Society, the Society for Economic Theory, and the Game Theory Society.
Summary
An introduction to the modern theory of economic design, this book develops an up-to-date treatment of the adjudication of conflicting claims. In addition to covering all aspects of claims problems, it links claims problems with other economic literatures, most prominently the game theory literature.
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'The design of rationing rules has inspired for nearly forty years a fascinating intellectual edifice of axiomatic postulates and mathematical results, reviewed here by the premiere author of that literature. Readers will recognize, or discover, William Thomson's superb pedagogical talent in a text that is comprehensive, self-contained, and luminously clear.' Hervé Moulin, Donald J. Robertson Chair of Economics, University of Glasgow
