Fuzzy Social Choice Theory

by Michael B. Gibilisco, Terry Clark, Karen E. Albert, et al.

Book Overview

This book offers a comprehensive analysis of the social choice literature and shows, by applying fuzzy sets, how the use of fuzzy preferences, rather than that of strict ones, may affect the social choice theorems. To do this, the book explores the presupposition of rationality within the fuzzy framework and shows that the two conditions for rationality, completeness and transitivity, do exist with fuzzy preferences. Specifically, this book examines:...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 331905175X
• ISBN13: 9783319051758
• Release Date: March 2014
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 185 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"