Wulf Gaertner: 2 books
A Primer in Social Choice Theory
Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2009
Processes of collective decision making are seen throughout modern society. How does a government decide on an investment strategy within the health care and educational sectors? Should a government or a community introduce measures to combat climate change and CO2 emissions, even if others choose...
Empirical Social Choice
Questionnaire-Experimental Studies on Distributive Justice
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2011
Since Aristotle, many different theories of distributive justice have been proposed, by philosophers as well as social scientists. The typical approach within social choice theory is to assess these theories in an axiomatic way – most of the time the reader is confronted with abstract reasoning...