Decisions and Elections: Explaining the Unexpected

by Donald G. Saari

Book Overview

It is not uncommon to be frustrated by the outcome of an election or a decision in voting, law, economics, engineering, and other fields. Does this 'bad' result reflect poor data or poorly informed voters? Or does the disturbing conclusion reflect the choice of the decision/election procedure? Nobel Laureate Kenneth Arrow's famed theorem has been interpreted to mean 'no decision procedure is without flaws'. Similarly, Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen dashes...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521004047
• ISBN13: 9780521004046
• Release Date: October 2001
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 254 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.1"