Collective Decision-Making:: Social Choice and Political Economy

by Norman Schofield

Book Overview

In the last decade the techniques of social choice theory, game theory and positive political theory have been combined in interesting ways so as to pro- vide a common framework for analyzing the behavior of a developed political economy. Social choice theory itself grew out of the innovative attempts by Ken- neth Arrow (1951) and Duncan Black (1948, 1958) to extend the range of economic theory in order to deal with collective decision-making over...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0792397118
• ISBN13: 9780792397113
• Release Date: September 1996
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 422 Pages
• Weight: 1.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.2"