TY  - GEN
AU  - Nitzan,Shmuel
TI  - Collective preference and choice
SN  - 9780521722131
U1  - 302.3 23
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Group decision making
KW  - Mathematical models.
KW  - Social choice
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and indexes; 1. The reason for the problems --
2. Brief overview of the problems --
3. The relationship between preferences and choice --
4. Do social preferences exist? --
5. The desirable decision rule: axiomatization --
6. Rule selection based on compromise with the unanimity criterion --
7. Paradoxes of voting --
8. Majority tyranny --
9. The problems of inefficient provision of public goods --
10. Do individuals reveal their true preferences? --
11. Which rule is better: the expert rule or the simple majority rule? decisional errors in dichotomous choice and Condorect's jury theoroem --
12. The optimal decision rule under uncertain dichotomous choice --
Bibliography --
Author index --
Subject index
N2  - A study of the classical aggregation problems that arise in social choice theory, voting theory, and group decision-making under uncertainty
ER  -