Cycles and social choice : the true and unabridged story of a most protean paradox /

The centuries-old paradox of voting is that majorities sometimes prefer x to y, y to z, and z to x - a cycle. The discovery of the sources and consequences of such cycles, under majority rule and countless other regimes, constitutes much of the mathematical theory of voting and social choice. This b...

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Main Author: Schwartz, Thomas, 1943- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2018.
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Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: Introduction; 1. Condorcet's two discoveries; 2. Incidence of the paradox; 3. Social rationality; 4. Arrovian cycle theorems; 5. Second line of cycle theorems: Condorcet generalizations; 6. Top Cycles in a fixed feasible set; 7. Strategic consequences of cycles; 8. Structural consequences of cycles; 9. Questions about prediction and explanation; 10. Questions about prescription and evaluation.