1st Edition

Logic and Social Choice (RLE Social Theory)

By Yasusuke Murakami Copyright 1968
144 Pages
by Routledge

144 Pages
by Routledge

144 Pages
by Routledge

How is a social decision made out of individual members' decisions? This is one of the primary questions in the social sciences. Logic and Social Choice provides an answer to the topic by the application of mathematical logic. Yasusuke Murakami formulates social decision-making in logical terms, and shows that an analysis of social decision is equivalent to a logical calculus in many-valued... Read more

1. Introduction  2. Social Decision Function  3. Democracy in a World of Two Alternatives  4. Democracy in a World of More than Two Alternatives  5. Voting Paradox  6. Voting Paradox Reconsidered

Biography

Y. Murakami