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Host: University of British Columbia
Sponsor: Society for Social Choice and Welfare, The Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences
Homepage: http://web.arts.ubc.ca/econ/scw.htm
Email: scw@econ.ubc.ca
Organizers: Charles Blackorby, David Donaldson, Hugh Neary, John Weymark
Description:
Social choice theory is concerned with analyzing the properties of
actual procedures for making collective decisions and with the design of
collective decision procedures that satisfy various normative criteria and
feasibility constraints. The subject includes such topics as voting rules,
committee decision-making, and bargaining. Social choice theory also
provides an analytic framework for studying distributive justice in
problems of resource allocation (such as how to equitably share the costs
of a facility among its users and how to measure income inequality).
The aim of this workshop is to provide a mini-course in social
choice theory and related issues of distributive justice, with special
emphasis on topics that illustrate the diverse branches of mathematics that
the subject draws upon (such as algebra, analysis, topology, functional
equations, game theory, graph theory, measurement theory, and majorization
theory). Each lecture is self-contained and is designed to provide an
introduction to the topic for nonspecialists and a fresh perspective on the
subject for the specialist.
Speakers: Donald Campbell, Yves Sprumont, Bhaskar Dutta, Luc Lauwers, Michel Le Breton, William Thomson, Walter Bossert, Herve Moulin, Eric Friedman, Allan Gibbard, Sir James Mirrlees, Mark Satterthwaite, Herve Moulin
Mail Address:
Society for Social Choice and Welfare Conference Department of Economics #997-1873 East Mall University of British Columbia Vancouver, B.C. Canada V6T 1Z1 fax: 1-604-822-5915
Submitted by: PIMS
Date received: January 01, 1998
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