1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910555050603321

Titolo

Chemistry in the soil environment / / organizing committee, D. E. Baker ; American Society of Agronomy and the Soil Science Society of America

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Madison, Wisconsin : , : American Society of Agronomy : , : Soil Science Society of America, , 1985

ISBN

0-89118-306-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (259 pages)

Collana

ASA Special Publication ; ; Number 40

Disciplina

631.41

Soggetti

Soil chemistry

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9911040917703321

Autore

de Swart Harrie

Titolo

Elections and Fair Division : An Introduction to Social Choice Theory / / by Harrie de Swart, Stefan Wintein

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer Nature Switzerland : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2025

ISBN

3-032-06010-9

Edizione

[1st ed. 2025.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (668 pages)

Collana

Studies in Choice and Welfare, , 2197-8530

Disciplina

330.1556

302.13

Soggetti

Social choice

Welfare economics

Game theory

Elections

Econometrics

Economics

Social Choice and Welfare

Game Theory

Electoral Politics

Quantitative Economics

Public Choice and Political Economy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Chapter 1. Different Country, Different Electoral System; Agendas -- Chapter 2. Electoral Rules, Properties and Impossibilities -- Chapter 3. Impossibility and Possibility Theorems; Single-peaked Preferences -- Chapter 4. Majority Judgment -- Chapter 5. Voting Power -- Chapter 6. An Alternative Polity -- Chapter 7. Claims-based Fair Division -- Chapter 8. Bankruptcy Problems -- Chapter 9. Weighted Bankruptcy Problems -- Chapter 10. Weighted Bankruptcy with Discrete Estates: Apportionments and Lotteries -- Chapter 11. Cooperative Game Theory -- Chapter 12. Preference Based Division Problems.

Sommario/riassunto

This graduate textbook introduces to social choice theory, with a specific focus on elections and fair division, supported by mathematical



theories and practical implications. Part I sheds light on the complexity of fair elections, and presents classical results from social choice theory, including May's, Arrow's, and Gibbard-Satterthwaite's theorems, and how they impact the organization of fair elections. They also discuss the measurement of voting power in such elections via the Penrose-Banzhaf index and the Shapley-Shubik index. Besides these more or less classical topics, the authors introduce Balinski and Laraki's transformative Majority Judgment framework. Moreover, Part I concludes by critically addressing flaws in contemporary Western democracies and proposing an alternative political system. In Part II, the book dissects claims-based and preference-based fair division, explaining that the focus will be on the former. In particular, the focus will be on models that can elaborate on and make precise the thought that `fairness requires that claims are satisfied in proportion to their strength’, as advocated for in the philosophical literature. The authors scrutinize various formal models, ranging from (weighted) bankruptcy problems to cooperative games, assessing their alignment with this claims-based conception of fairness. Part II concludes with a brief overview of preference-based fair division. This textbook is a crucial resource for graduate and advanced undergraduate students and scholars, bridging the worlds of mathematics, philosophy, political theory, and social justice.