Mathematics of Social Choice: Voting, Compensation, and Division

Christoph Boergers (Tufts University, Massachusetts)

Mathematics of Social Choice: Voting, Compensation, and Division
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Society for Industrial & Applied Mathematics,U.S.
Country
United States
Published
21 January 2010
Pages
184
ISBN
9780898716955

Mathematics of Social Choice: Voting, Compensation, and Division

Christoph Boergers (Tufts University, Massachusetts)

Mathematics of Social Choice is a fun and accessible book that looks at the choices made by groups of people with different preferences, needs, and interests. Divided into three parts, the text first examines voting methods for selecting or ranking candidates. A brief second part addresses compensation problems wherein an indivisible item must be assigned to one of several people who are equally entitled to ownership of the item, with monetary compensation paid to the others. The third part discusses the problem of sharing a divisible resource among several people. Mathematics of Social Choice can be used by undergraduates studying mathematics and students whose only mathematical background is elementary algebra. More advanced material can be skipped without any loss of continuity. The book can also serve as an easy introduction to topics such as the Gibbard-Satterthwaite theorem, Arrow’s theorem, and fair division for readers with more mathematical background.

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