Browsing Department of Economics by Subject "Social choice"

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    • Social Choice: Recent Developments 
      Bossert, Walter; Weymark, John A. (Vanderbilt University, 2006)
      Abstract: In the past quarter century, there has been a dramatic shift of focus in social choice theory, with structured sets of alternatives and restricted domains of the sort encountered in economic problems coming to ...
    • Strategy-Proofness and the Tops-Only Property 
      Weymark, John A. (Vanderbilt University. Dept. of Economics, 2004-04)
      A social choice function satisfies the tops-only property if the chosen alternative only depends on each person's report of his most-preferred alternatives on the range of this function. On many domains, strategy-proofness ...