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  • Voting Power and Procedures

    Essays in Honour of Dan Felsenthal and Moshé Machover

    Edited by Rudolf Fara, Dennis Leech, Maurice Salles ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This collection of essays honouring Dan Felsenthal and Moshé Machover reconsiders foundational aspects of the measurement of voting power. The specific case of voting power in two-tier systems - for instance the US system and the EU system - is analysed. Furthermore major power indices - Penrose, Banzhaf, Shapley-Shubik and others are revisited. The book proposes new voting procedures and studies ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

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  • How to Measure the Fiscal Deficit

    Edited by A. Miss Cheasty, Mario Mr. Bléjer ...
    Fiscal policy seeks to equilibrate the public sector's financing needs with the private sector's demand for investment and a sustainable balance of payments. Correct measurement of the public sector's net use of resources is therefore an important prerequisite for managing the macroeconomy. This volume, edited by Mario I. Blejer and Adrienne Cheasty, is organized around four issues: the adequacy ... Read more

    $9.29 USD

  • Essential Linear Algebra with Applications

    A Problem-Solving Approach

    by Titu Andreescu ...
    Series series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
    Rooted in a pedagogically successful problem-solving approach to linear algebra, this work fills a gap in the literature that is sharply divided between, on the one end, elementary texts with only limited exercises and examples, and, at the other end, books too advanced in prerequisites and too specialized in focus to appeal to a wide audience. Instead, it clearly develops the theoretical ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Dynamic Risk Assessment

    The Practical Guide to Making Risk-Based Decisions with the 3-Level Risk Management Model

    by Stephen Asbury, Edmund Jacobs ...
    Dynamic Risk Assessment is the key tool to support a holistic risk management framework. This book aims to help employers, managers and staff alike to understand how they can effectively integrate dynamic risk assessment into business management processes and systems to improve safety.With tips, examples and solutions throughout, this multi-disciplinary text delivers an effective and comprehensive ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Mathematical Methods in Economics and Social Choice

    by Norman Schofield ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    In recent years, the usual optimization techniques, which have proved so useful in microeconomic theory, have been extended to incorporate more powerful topological and differential methods, and these methods have led to new results on the qualitative behavior of general economic and political systems. These developments have necessarily resulted in an increase in the degree of formalism in the ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Social Dynamics

    by Brian Skyrms ...
    Brian Skyrms presents eighteen essays which apply adaptive dynamics (of cultural evolution and individual learning) to social theory. Altruism, spite, fairness, trust, division of labor, and signaling are treated from this perspective. Correlation is seen to be of fundamental importance. Interactions with neighbors in space, on static networks, and on co-evolving dynamics networks are investigated ... Read more

    $42.29 USD

  • Voting Paradoxes and Group Coherence

    The Condorcet Efficiency of Voting Rules

    by William V. Gehrlein, Dominique Lepelley ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    The likelihood of observing Condorcet's Paradox is known to be very low for elections with a small number of candidates if voters’ preferences on candidates reflect any significant degree of a number of different measures of mutual coherence. This reinforces the intuitive notion that strange election outcomes should become less likely as voters’ preferences become more mutually coherent. Similar ... Read more

    $116.09 USD

  • The Political Economy of Social Choices

    Edited by Maria Gallego, Norman Schofield ...
    Series series Studies in Political Economy
    This book presents state-of-the-art research in political economy dealing with the decision making process under different political institutions. It focuses on the role that states and governments have on political outcomes and on the well-being of individuals, taking into account the differences that arise across autocracies and democracies and within political regimes. The research in this book ... Read more

    $134.09 USD

  • Power, Voting, and Voting Power: 30 Years After

    Edited by Hannu Nurmi, Manfred J Holler ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    The developments over a thirty-year time span in the study of power, especially voting power, are traced in this book, which provides an up-to-date overview of applications of n-person game theory to the study of power in multimember bodies. Other theories that shed light on power distribution (e.g. aggregation theory) are treated as well. The book revisits the themes discussed in the well-known ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • The Theory of Externalities and Public Goods

    Essays in Memory of Richard C. Cornes

    Edited by Wolfgang Buchholz, Dirk Rübbelke ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This state-of-the art collection of papers analyses various aspects of the theory of externalities and public goods. The contributions employ new analytical techniques like the aggregative game approach, and discuss the philosophical underpinnings of the theory. Furthermore, they highlight a range of topical empirical applications including climate policy and counterterrorism. This contributed ... Read more

    $170.09 USD

  • Inequality and Finance in Macrodynamics

    Edited by Bettina Bökemeier, Alfred Greiner ...
    Series Book 23 - Dynamic Modeling and Econometrics in Economics and Finance
    This contributed volume combines approaches of the current inequality debate with aspects of finance based on profound macroeconomic model analyses. Research on inequality has had a long tradition in economics. With the financial crisis from 2007, not only output decreased tremendously, but also inequality has risen since then. The book presents selected contributions of a workshop held at ... Read more

    $134.09 USD

  • Sovereign Debt Structure for Crisis Prevention

    by Eduardo Mr. Borensztein, Olivier Mr. Jeanne, Paolo Mr. Mauro, Jeromin Mr. Zettelmeyer, Marcos Mr. Chamon ...
    Series Book 237 - Occasional Papers
    The debate on government debt in the context of possible reforms of the international financial architecture has thus far focused on crisis resolution. This paper seeks to broaden this debate. It asks how government debt could be structured to pursue other objectives, including crisis prevention, international risk-sharing, and facilitating the adjustment of fiscal variables to changes in domestic ... Read more

    $10.29 USD