The source of some paradoxes from social choice and probability
type: Item
instance of: scholarly article
title: The source of some paradoxes from social choice and probability
zbMATH Open document ID: 0615.90010
DOI: 10.1016/0022-0531(87)90002-0
author: Donald G. Saari
published in: Journal of Economic Theory
publication date: 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z
full work available at URL: 609.pdf
review text: A simple property of open sets being mapped into open sets is shown to be the source common to many paradoxes in probability and social choice theory. Conditional probability and Simpson's paradox as well as voting and Arrow's paradox are used as the main examples.
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 91B14
zbMATH DE Number: 3997488
zbMATH Keywords: ranking methods
zbMATH Keywords: paradoxes
zbMATH Keywords: Conditional probability
zbMATH Keywords: Simpson's paradox
reviewed by: Alfred Endres
MaRDI profile type: Publication
OpenAlex ID: W2039188005
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description: scientific article; zbMATH DE number 3997488