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The Theory of Implementation of Social Choice Rules [PDF]

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2003
Suppose that the goals of a society can be summarized in a social choice rule, i.e., a mapping from relevant underlying parameters to final outcomes. Typically, the underlying parameters (e.g., individual preferences) are private information to the agents in society. The implementation problem is then formulated: under what circumstances can one design
Roberto Serrano
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The Topology of Quantum Theory and Social Choice [PDF]

Quantum Reports, 2022
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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Using social choice theory and acceptability analysis to measure the value of health systems. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2020
The Future Health Index (FHI) is developed by the Royal Philips to help determine the readiness of countries to address global health challenges and build sustainable, fit-for-purpose national health systems.
Hai Shen, Yubing Sui, Yelin Fu
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Complexity of Strong Implementability [PDF]

Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science, 2009
We consider the question of implementability of a social choice function in a classical setting where the preferences of finitely many selfish individuals with private information have to be aggregated towards a social choice.
Clemens Thielen, Sven O. Krumke
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Theory Choice and Social Choice: Kuhn versus Arrow [PDF]

Mind, 2011
Kuhn’s famous thesis that there is ‘no unique algorithm’ for choosing between rival scientific theories is analysed using the machinery of social choice theory. It is shown that the problem of theory choice as posed by Kuhn is formally identical to a standard social choice problem.
Samir Okasha
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The Influence of Generations on Career Choice (Social Cognitive Career Theory Perspective)

Konselor, 2018
The phenomenon of multigenerational labor provides new challenges in the world of career. The difference of values and objectives of each generation can influence individual’s career choice thus career counselor need an approach to be able to help ...
Galuh Prawitasari
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Sports Tournaments and Social Choice Theory [PDF]

Philosophies, 2019
Sports tournaments provide a procedure for producing a champion and ranking the contestants based on game results. As such, tournaments mirror aggregation methods in social choice theory, where diverse individual preferences are put together to form an ...
Rory Smead
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Three essays in choice and social choice theory [PDF]

, 2019
This thesis is composed of one essay in Choice Theory and two in Social Choice Theory and considers situations where an issue has arisen with a number of ways to deal with it. Chapter 1 studies how the choice of an individual adhering to specific ways of dealing with the issue, affects his preferences on the issue itself. Chapters 2 and 3 study how the
Protopapas
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Representative Social Choice: From Learning Theory to AI Alignment [PDF]

arXiv
Social choice theory is the study of preference aggregation across a population, used both in mechanism design for human agents and in the democratic alignment of language models. In this study, we propose the representative social choice framework for the modeling of democratic representation in collective decisions, where the number of issues and ...
Tianyi Qiu
arxiv   +3 more sources

A NOTE ON THE THEORY OF SOCIAL CHOICE [PDF]

Kyklos, 1951
Professor Arrow brings to his treatment of the theory of social welfare (I) a fine unity of mathematical rigour and insight into fundamental issues of social philosophy. The problem is the old one of the relationship of individual values to the general well-being of the group.
Daniel B. Suits
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