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MSS
2010
IEEE
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Monotonicity + efficiency + continuity = majority
Axioms of monotonicity, efficiency and continuity are shown to characterize the relative majority rule when there are only two alternatives. The absolute majority rule and the rel...
Antonio Quesada
MSS
2010
IEEE
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Sustainability and discounted utilitarianism in models of economic growth
Discounted utilitarianism treats generations unequally and leads to seemingly unappealing consequences in some models of economic growth. Instead, this paper presents and applies ...
Geir B. Asheim, Tapan Mitra
MSS
2010
IEEE
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The almost surely shrinking yolk
The yolk, defined by McKelvey as the smallest ball intersecting all median hyperplanes, is a key concept in the Euclidean spatial model of voting. Koehler conjectured that the yo...
Craig A. Tovey
MSS
2010
IEEE
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Fair intergenerational sharing of a natural resource
Overlapping generations are extracting a natural resource over an infinite future. We examine fair allocation of resource and compensations among generations. Fairness is define...
Hippolyte d'Albis, Stefan Ambec
MSS
2010
IEEE
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Impossibilities for roommate problems
Ipek Özkal-Sanver
MSS
2010
IEEE
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A critique of distributional analysis in the spatial model
Distributional analysis is widely used to study social choice in Euclidean models [35, 36, 1, 5, 11, 19, 8, 2, e.g]. This method assumes a continuum of voters distributed accordin...
Craig A. Tovey
MSS
2010
IEEE
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A trichotomy of attitudes for decision-making under complete ignorance
This paper investigates ‘complete ignorance’ (CI) in the tradition of the CI literature and provides a characterization of possible attitudes toward ignorance. Pessimism, opti...
Ronan Congar, François Maniquet