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Decisions and elections : = explaining the unexpected /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Decisions and elections :/ Donald G. Saari.
Reminder of title:	explaining the unexpected /
remainder title:	Decisions & Elections
Author:	Saari, D.
Description:	1 online resource (xiii, 240 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). :
Notes:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Subject:	Decision making. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511606076
ISBN:	9780511606076 (ebook)

Decisions and elections : = explaining the unexpected /
Saari, D.

Decisions and elections :explaining the unexpected /Decisions & ElectionsDonald G. Saari. - 1 online resource (xiii, 240 pages) :digital, PDF file(s).

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Do We Get What We Expect? --1.

It is not uncommon to be frustrated by the outcome of an election or a decision in voting, law, economics, engineering, and other fields. Does this 'bad' result reflect poor data or poorly informed voters? Or does the disturbing conclusion reflect the choice of the decision/election procedure? Nobel Laureate Kenneth Arrow's famed theorem has been interpreted to mean 'no decision procedure is without flaws'. Similarly, Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen dashes hope for individual liberties by showing their incompatibility with societal needs. This highly accessible book offers a new, different interpretation and resolution of Arrow's and Sen's theorems. Using simple mathematics, it shows that these negative conclusions arise because, in each case, some of their assumptions negate other crucial assumptions. Once this is understood, not only do the conclusions become expected, but a wide class of other phenomena can also be anticipated.

ISBN: 9780511606076 (ebook)Subjects--Topical Terms:

528319
Decision making.

LC Class. No.: HB846.8 / .S25 2001

Dewey Class. No.: 658.4/03

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