1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910790183203321

Autore

Munster Anna

Titolo

Materializing New Media : Embodiment in Information Aesthetics / / Anna Munster

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lebanon : , : Dartmouth College Press, , 2011

ISBN

1-283-87526-8

1-61168-294-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (253 pages)

Collana

Interfaces: Studies in Visual Culture

Disciplina

303.48/33

303.4833

700.105

Soggetti

Computers and civilization

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Title Page; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Sampling and Folding; 2 Natural History and Digital History; 3 Virtuality; 4 Interfaciality; 5 Digitality; Postscript; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

Sommario/riassunto

A significant contribution to investigations of the social and cultural impact of new media and digital technologies.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910791802203321

Autore

Bossert Walter

Titolo

Consistency, choice, and rationality [[electronic resource] /] / Walter Bossert and Kotaro Suzumura

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass., : Harvard University Press, 2010

ISBN

0-674-05921-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (230 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

SuzumuraKōtarō <1944->

Disciplina

302.13015118

Soggetti

Rational choice theory

Social choice - Mathematical models

Welfare economics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Contents ""; ""Preface ""; ""I. Foundations ""; ""1. Historical Background ""; ""1.1 Suzumura Consistency ""; ""1.2 Rational Choice as Purposive Behavior ""; ""1.3 Samuelson's Weak Axiom ""; ""1.4 Houthakker's Axiom ""; ""1.5 General Choice Functions ""; ""1.6 Rational Choice: An Outlook ""; ""1.7 Reference-Dependent Choice ""; ""1.8 External Norms ""; ""1.9 Welfare Economics and Social Choice Theory ""; ""1.10 Beyond Finite-Population Social Choice ""; ""2. Mathematical Background ""; ""2.1 Binary Relations ""; ""2.2 Greatest and Maximal Elements ""; ""2.3 Extensions of Relations ""

""2.4 Filters and Ultrafilters """"II. Rationalizability on General Domains ""; ""3. Definitions of Rationalizability ""; ""3.1 Preliminaries ""; ""3.2 Greatest-Element Rationalizability ""; ""3.3 Maximal-Element Rationalizability ""; ""3.4 A Synthesis ""; ""4. Characterizations ""; ""4.1 A Preliminary Result ""; ""4.2 Three Special Cases ""; ""4.3 A Unifed Approach ""; ""4.4 Summary ""; ""III. Rationalizability on Specific Domains ""; ""5. Domain Closedness Properties ""; ""5.1 Additional Choice Coherence Axioms ""; ""5.2 Logical Relationships ""; ""5.3 Closedness under Intersection ""

""5.4 Closedness under Union """"6. Cardinality-Complete Domains ""; ""6.1 Base Domains ""; ""6.2 Logical Relationships on Base Domains ""; ""6.3 Characterizations on Base Domains ""; ""6.4 Base Domains and Closedness under Union ""; ""IV. Alternative Notions of Rationalizability



""; ""7. Non-deteriorating Choice ""; ""7.1 Individual Non-deteriorating Choice ""; ""7.2 Characterization of ND-Rationalizability ""; ""7.3 The Multi-agent Case ""; ""7.4 Characterizing Efficient and Non-deteriorating Choice ""; ""8. External Norms and Rational Choice ""; ""8.1 Internal Coherence of Choice ""

""8.2 Norm-Conditional Choice """"8.3 Norm-Conditional Rationalizability ""; ""8.4 Characterization Results ""; ""V. Topics in Social Choice Theory ""; ""9. Collective Choice Rules ""; ""9.1 Weakening Social Coherence Properties ""; ""9.2 Earlier Results ""; ""9.3 Generalizations of the Pareto Rule ""; ""9.4 A Characterization ""; ""10. Decisiveness and Infinite Populations ""; ""10.1 Decisive Coalitions, Filters, and Ultrafilters ""; ""10.2 Decisiveness without Social Richness Assumptions ""; ""10.3 Intergenerational Social Choice ""; ""10.4 Multi-profile Stationarity ""; ""References ""

""Index ""

Sommario/riassunto

An impressive and magisterial work from the top contributors in the world on choice-demand theory.