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Book reviews

Collective choice and social welfare. Expanded edition. Amartya K. Sen. Penguin Books 2017. A discussion in the view of the procedures sequential choice and fund voting
Elections, voting rules and paradoxical outcomes. William V. Gehrlein and Dominique Lepelley. Studies in choice and welfare. Springer 2017. Reviewed by including sequential choice in the analysis
The Arrow impossibility theorem. Eric Maskin and Amartya Sen with Kenneth J. Arrow, Partha Dasgupta, Prasanta K. Pattanaik and Joseph E. Stiglitz. (Kenneth J. Arrow lecture series) Columbia University Press, 2014. A discussion
Electoral systems. Paradoxes, assumptions and procedures. Dan S. Felsenthal and Moshé Machover, editors. Studies in choice and welfare. Springer 2012. A note
Disposing dictators, demystifying voting paradoxes. Social choice analysis. Donald G. Saari. Cambridge University Press, 2008. A review
Public economics revised considering sequential choice and fund voting, cf. Intermediate public economics by Hindriks and Myles (MIT Press 2006)
Imperfect institutions. Possibilities and limits of reform (2005) by Thrainn Eggertsson, University of Michigan. Comments on two subjects
Rationalizing capitalist democracy : the Cold War origins of rational choice liberalism. S.M. Amadae. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003. A review
The economics of public choice. Patrick A. McNutt, second edition. Edward Elgar, 2002. A note
Chaotic elections! A mathematician looks at voting. Donald G. Saari. American Mathematical Society. 2001. A review
Decisions and elections. Explaining the unexpected. Donald G. Saari. Cambridge University Press, 2001. A review
Competition and cooperation: conversations with Nobelists about economics and political science, James E. Alt, Margaret Levi, Elinor Olstrom, editors. 1999. A review
Basic geometry of voting. Donald G.Saaari. Springer, 1995. A review
Bioeconomic analysis of fisheries by Rognvaldur Hannesson 1993. A critical comment
Individual interests and collective action. James S. Coleman, Cambridge University Press/Universitetsforlaget, 1986. A review