Domain Conditions and Social Rationality

• Main Author: Jain, Satish Kumar (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Game theory.; Economic theory.; Welfare economics.; Economic policy.; Economics.; Sociology.; Game Theory, Economics, Social and Behav. Sciences.; Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods.; Social Choice/Welfare Economics/Public Choice/Political Economy.; Political Economy/Economic Systems.; Sociological Theory.

This book primarily focuses on the domain conditions under which a number of important classes of binary social decision rules give rise to rational social preferences. One implication of the Arrow and Gibbard theorems is that every non-oligarchic social decision rule that satisfies the condition of...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1. Introduction
• Chapter 2. The Preliminaries
• Chapter 3. The Method of Majority Decision
• Chapter 4. The Strict Majority Rule
• Chapter 5. The Class of Semi-Strict Majority Rules
• Chapter 6. Special Majority Rules
• Chapter 7. The Class of Strict Majority Rules
• Chapter 8. The Class of Pareto-Inclusive Strict Majority Rules
• Chapter 9. Social Decision Rules Which Are Simple Games
• Chapter 10. Neutral and Monotonic Binary Social Decision Rules
• Chapter 11. Quasi-Transitive Individual Preferences
• Chapter 12. Summary and Concluding Remarks.