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| Preface to the Revised Edition | |
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| Preface and Acknowledgements to the First Edition | |
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| About the Author | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Basic questions | |
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| Catching a glimpse of the past | |
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| Basic formalism | |
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| Aggregation of preferences - how can this be done? | |
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| The informational aspect | |
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| A path through haze, or how to read this book | |
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| Some exercises | |
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| Arrow's impossibility result | |
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| The axiom system and the theorem | |
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| The original proof | |
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| A second proof | |
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| A third diagrammatic proof | |
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| A short summary | |
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| Some exercises | |
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| Majority decision under restricted domains | |
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| The simple majority rule | |
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| Single-peaked preferences | |
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| Other domain conditions: qualitative and quantitative | |
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| A short summary | |
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| Some exercises | |
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| Individual rights | |
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| Sen's impossibility of a Paretian liberal | |
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| Gibbard's theory of alienable rights | |
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| Conditional and unconditional preferences | |
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| Conditional and unconditional preferences again: matching pennies and the prisoners' dilemma | |
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| The game form approach to rights | |
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| A short summary | |
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| Some exercises | |
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| Manipulability | |
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| The underlying problem | |
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| The Gibbard-Satterthwaite theorem | |
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| Strategy-proofness and restricted domains | |
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| A short summary | |
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| Some exercises | |
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| Escaping impossibilities: social choice rules | |
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| The Pareto-extension rule and veto power | |
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| Scoring functions and the Borda rule | |
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| Other social choice rules | |
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| A parliamentary vote: Berlin vs. Bonn | |
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| A short summary | |
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| Some exercises | |
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| Distributive justice: Rawlsian and utilitarian rules | |
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| The philosophical background | |
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| The informational structure | |
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| Axioms and characterizations | |
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| Diagrammatic proofs again | |
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| Harsanyi's utilitarianism | |
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| A short summary | |
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| Some exercises | |
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| Cooperative bargaining | |
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| The bargaining problem | |
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| Nash's bargaining solution | |
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| Zeuthen's principle of alternating concessions | |
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| The Kalai-Smorodinsky bargaining solution | |
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| A philosopher's view | |
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| Kalai's egalitarian solution | |
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| A short summary | |
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| Some exercises | |
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| Empirical social choice | |
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| Theory and opinions of the general public | |
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| Needs vs. tastes - the approach by Yaari and Bar-Hillel | |
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| Rawls's equity axiom - how does it fare? | |
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| From here to where? | |
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| A short summary | |
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| Some exercises | |
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| A few steps beyond | |
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| Social choice rules in continuous space | |
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| The uniform rule | |
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| Freedom of choice | |
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| An epilogue instead of a summary | |
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| References | |
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| Hints to the Exercises | |
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| Author Index | |
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| Subject Index | |