Collective Preference and Choice

ISBN: 9780521722131 出版年：2009 页码：275 Nitzan Cambridge University Press

List of figures List of tables Preface Acknowledgments Part I. Introduction: 1. The reason for the problems 2. Brief overview of the problems 3. The relationship between preferences and choice Part II. Different Preferences: 4. Do social preferences exist? Arrow's and Sen's impossibility theorems 5. The desirable collective decision rule: axiomatization 6. Rule selection based on the compromise with the unanimity criterion 7. Paradoxes of voting 8. Majority tyranny and expression of preference intensity 9. The problem of inefficient provision of public goods 10. Do individuals reveal their true preferences? Part III. Identical Preferences - Different Decisional Skills: 11. Which rule is better: the expert rule or the simple majority rule? Decisional errors in dichotomous choice and Condorcet's jury theorem 12. The optimal decision rule under uncertain dichotomous choice References Index.