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

• Autore: Bossert Walter
• Pubblicazione: Cambridge, Mass., : Harvard University Press, 2010
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (230 p.)
• Disciplina: 302.13015118
• Soggetto topico: Rational choice theory; Social choice - Mathematical models; Welfare economics
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: SuzumuraKōtarō <1944->
• 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 ""
• Titolo autorizzato: Consistency, choice, and rationality
• ISBN: 0-674-05921-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910465528503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II