INVESTIGADORES
TOHME Fernando Abel
congresos y reuniones científicas
Título:
Social Choice Situations and Aggregation Criteria: Inductive Reasoning in Social Choice Theory
Autor/es:
TOHMÉ, FERNANDO; AUDAY, MARCELO
Lugar:
Tempe, AZ
Reunión:
Otro; Department of Economics, Seminar Series, Arizona State University; 2006
Institución organizadora:
Department of Economics, Arizona State University
Resumen:
The usual procedure in Social Choice Theory consists in postulating
some desirable properties which a aggregation procedure should verify and
from them to derive the features of the corresponding social choice function
and the outcomes that arise at each possible profile of preferences.
In this paper we invert this line of reasoning and try to infer, up from
what we call social situations (each one consisting of a profile and the
associated social ordering) the criteria verified in the implicit aggregation
procedure. Furthermore, we derive them in axiomatic form. This inference
process, which extracts intentional from extensional information can
be seen as an exercise in social choice-theoretic statistics. The fact that
complete intentional characterizations of the aggregation process cannot
be derived in such way can be easily seen as a consequence of the procedure.
Even so, this method can be seen as a fundamental component for
the implementation of desired social preferences, if only a description of
the individual preferences of the agents of a given society are known.social situations (each one consisting of a profile and the
associated social ordering) the criteria verified in the implicit aggregation
procedure. Furthermore, we derive them in axiomatic form. This inference
process, which extracts intentional from extensional information can
be seen as an exercise in social choice-theoretic statistics. The fact that
complete intentional characterizations of the aggregation process cannot
be derived in such way can be easily seen as a consequence of the procedure.
Even so, this method can be seen as a fundamental component for
the implementation of desired social preferences, if only a description of
the individual preferences of the agents of a given society are known.