Authors:William V. Gehrlein, Dominique Lepelley,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: voting, studies, choice, welfare, rules, condorcet, paradoxes, group, coherence, efficiency
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 2010-11-24
List price: $189.00
ISBN-10: 3642031064
ISBN-13: 9783642031069

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 analysis is used here to indicate that this notion is valid for most, but not all, other voting paradoxes. This study also focuses on the Condorcet Criterion, which states that the pairwise m

Authors:Steven Brams, William V. Gehrlein, Fred S. Roberts,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: choice, fishburn, studies, peter, welfare, essays, preference, order, mathematics, honor
Number of Pages: 430
Published: 2008-12-18
List price: $179.00
ISBN-10: 3540791272
ISBN-13: 9783540791270

This volume serves the multiple purposes of honoring Peter Fishburn’s contributions, providing both expository and new papers from leading figures in each of the areas of Fishburn’s research, and putting into one volume a wide variety of topics that are often not included together. These topics consider mathematical aspects of: social choice theory, decision theory, operations research, economics, political science, and psychology; as well as mathematical topics such as partial orders, graph theory, probability, and optimization. An important objective of this book is to demonstrat

Authors:William J. Cook, William H. Cunningham, William R.
Publisher: Wiley-Interscience
Keywords: optimization, combinatorial
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 1997-11-12
List price: $156.00
ISBN-10: 047155894X
ISBN-13: 9780471558941

A complete, highly accessible introduction to one of today’s most exciting areas of applied mathematics One of the youngest, most vital areas of applied mathematics, combinatorial optimization integrates techniques from combinatorics, linear programming, and the theory of algorithms. Because of its success in solving difficult problems in areas from telecommunications to VLSI, from product distribution to airline crew scheduling, the field has seen a ground swell of activity over the past decade. Combinatorial Optimization is an ideal introduction to this mathematical discipline for ad

Authors:William Reichenstein, William W. Jennings, William
Publisher: Wiley
Keywords: code, tax, investments, integrating
Number of Pages: 250
Published: 2003-01-17
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 0471216429
ISBN-13: 9780471216421

Add Value to any Client’s Portfolio With Tax-Saving Strategies "Bill Reichenstein and William Jennings are two of the industry’s very few true pioneers. This book should be on the short list of anyone interested in private wealth management, whether expressed in thousands or millions of dollars." –Jean L. P. Brunel, CFA, Editor of the Journal of Wealth Management and author of Integrated Wealth Management "Reichenstein and Jennings tackle many key issues facing individual investors, including ‘How should you differentiate between the before-tax dollars in retirement acc

Authors:William G. Gale, J. Mark Iwry, David C. John, William
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Keywords: saves, america, way, changing, automatic
Number of Pages: 278
Published: 2009-08-04
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0815702787
ISBN-13: 9780815702788

Automatic offers an innovative new way to think about how Americans can save for retirement.Over the past quarter century, America’s pension system has shifted away from defined benefit plans and toward defined contribution savings programs such as 401(k)s and IRAs. There is much to be done to improve the defined contribution system. Many workers fail to participate and those who do often contribute too little, invest the funds poorly, and are not adequately prepared to manage funds while in retirement.To resolve these problems, the authors propose that employees should be automatically

Authors:William S. Laufer, William Merton, Freda Adler, Willi
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Keywords: theory, volume, criminology, advances, legacy, anomie
Number of Pages: 449
Published: 1999-11-01
List price: $32.95
ISBN-10: 0765806622
ISBN-13: 9780765806628

Authors:Daniel Goleman, William Peace, William Pagonis, To
Publisher: Harvard Business Pre
Keywords: leadership, breakthrough, review, business, harvard
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2002-05-07
List price: $22.00
ISBN-10: 1578518059
ISBN-13: 9781578518050

The Harvard Business Review Paperback Series is designed to bring today’s managers and professionals the fundamental information they need to stay competitive in a fast-moving world. From the preeminent thinkers whose work has defined an entire field to the rising stars who will redefine the way we think about business, here are the leading minds and landmark ideas that have established the Harvard Business Review as required reading for ambitious businesspeople in organizations around the globe. This collection features an all-new roundtable discussion with a unique "closing essay" on