Social Choice and the Mathematics of Manipulation (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521810524)

Honesty in voting is not always the best policy. This is a book for mathematicians, political scientists, economists and philosophers who want to understand how it is impossible to devise a reasonable voting system in which voters can never gain by submitting a disingenuous ballot. The book requires no prerequisites except a willingness to follow rigorous mathematical arguments.

Author: Alan D. Taylor
ISBN-10: 0521810523
ISBN-13: 9780521810524
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 05/09/2005
Pages: 190
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.60d