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Mathematics of Social Choice : Voting, Compensation, and Division, Paperback ...

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Item Weight: 20 Oz ISBN: 9780898716955 Item Length: 10 in Item Width: 7.1 in Subject: Political Process / Campaigns & Elections, General Language: English Type: Textbook Format: Trade Paperback Publication Year: 2009 Publisher: Society for Industrial AND Applied Mathematics height: 0.7 in Item Height: 0.7 in width: 7.1 in Book Title: Mathematics of Social Choice : Voting, Compensation, and Division Author: Christoph Börgers Subject Area: Mathematics, Political Science, Social Science Number of Pages: 256 Pages Publication Name: Mathematics of Social Choice : Voting, Compensation, and Division

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Mathematics of Social Choice : Voting, Compensation, and Division, Paperback .... Annotation ©2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (). Mathematics of Social Choice : Voting, Compensation, and Division, Paperback by Borgers, Christoph, ISBN 0898716950, ISBN-13 9780898716955, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US In this text, Börgers (Mathematics, Tufts University) examines the choices made by groups of people with differing preferences, needs, and interests. The first part of th looks at methods for selecting or ranking candidates; the second at compensation problems in which an indivisible item must be assigned to one of several people who are equally entitled to ownership, with monetary compensation paid to the others; and the last part at the problem of sharing a divisible resource among several people. Th includes many elementary but rigorous mathematical proofs appropriate for beginning mathematics majors, as well as appendices on set notation, logic, and mathematical induction. Annotation ©2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR ()

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