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Adjustment and Social Choice [PDF]
We discuss the influence of information contagion on the dynamics of choices in social networks of heterogeneous buyers. Starting from an inhomogeneous cellular automata model of buyers dynamics, we show that when agents try to adjust their reservation price, the tatonement process does not converge to equilibrium at some intermediate market share and ...
Weisbuch, Gerard, Stauffer, Dietrich
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Analysis of Individual and Social Forms of Psychological Trauma [PDF]
The article attempts to determine its socio-psychological essence through the analysis of the social form of psychological trauma, as well as to identify the psychological nature of the pathological neoplasms that have arisen as a result of it, the ...
Krasilo A.I.
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The Topology of Quantum Theory and Social Choice
Based on the axioms of quantum theory, we identify a class of topological singularities that encode a fundamental difference between classic and quantum probability, and explain quantum theory’s puzzles and phenomena in simple mathematical terms so they ...
Graciela Chichilnisky
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A deliberative solution to the social choice problem [PDF]
Is there a sense in which society makes rational decision in a democratic way that is similar to individual rational decision-making? Social choice theory claims that rational social choice is not possible.
Mladenović Ivan
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Recurrence and Eigenfunction Methods for Non-Trivial Models of Discrete Binary Choice
Understanding how systems relax to equilibrium is a core theme of statistical physics, especially in economics, where systems are known to be subject to extrinsic noise not included in simple agent-based models.
James Holehouse
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Impossibility theorems in multiple von Wright’s preference logic [PDF]
By using the standard combining logics technique (D. M. Gabbay 1999) we define a generalization of von Wright’s preference logic (G. H. von Wright 1963) enabling to express, on an almost propositional level, the individual and the social ...
Boričić Branislav
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Deliberative Democracy and Incompatibilities of Choice Norms
Deliberative democracy aims at reaching collective decisions through mechanisms that involve flexible opinions, variable alternative sets and information gathering in the process of decision making as opposed to exogenously fixed alternative sets and ...
Hannu Nurmi
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Avaliação de Políticas Sustentáveis
Sustainability policy evaluation and assessment seeks to answer the key question, sustainability of what and whom? Consequently, sustainability issues are multidimensional in nature and feature a high degree of conflict, uncertainty and complexity ...
Giuseppe Munda
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Simulations in Models of Preference Aggregation
Social choice theory provides a theoretical framework for analyzing how to combine individual opinions, preferences, interests or welfare so as to reach a collective decision.
Mostapha Diss, Eric Kamwa
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Social Choice and Popular Control [PDF]
In democracies citizens are supposed to have some control over the general direction of policy. According to a pretheoretical interpretation of this idea, the people have control if elections and other democratic institutions compel officials to do what ...
Ingham, Sean
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