Mathematicians working on social choice theory - MathOverflow most recent 30 from http://mathoverflow.net 2013-05-23T07:33:30Z http://mathoverflow.net/feeds/question/68254 http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/rdf http://mathoverflow.net/questions/68254/mathematicians-working-on-social-choice-theory Mathematicians working on social choice theory LaLone 2011-06-20T00:19:25Z 2011-06-20T14:58:52Z <p>Can someone tell me which mathematicians are actively working on social choice theory, or point to a place where they may be listed?</p> http://mathoverflow.net/questions/68254/mathematicians-working-on-social-choice-theory/68265#68265 Answer by Soumya Sanyal for Mathematicians working on social choice theory Soumya Sanyal 2011-06-20T04:24:11Z 2011-06-20T04:24:11Z <p><a href="http://www.math.auckland.ac.nz/~slinko/" rel="nofollow">A. Slinko</a> publishes in social choice theory. (I am presently unable to post this answer as a comment to the OP's question.)</p> http://mathoverflow.net/questions/68254/mathematicians-working-on-social-choice-theory/68278#68278 Answer by Rytis for Mathematicians working on social choice theory Rytis 2011-06-20T12:25:40Z 2011-06-20T14:58:52Z <p><a href="http://www.chichilnisky.com/showall_articles.php" rel="nofollow">Graciela Chichilnisky</a> is one of them (as well as her co-authors). Late Beno Eckmann has a nice chapter in one of his books on social choice theory as a direct application of an average rule in arbitrary spaces. Other people include Luc Lauwers or Shmuel Weinberger. These are examples of mainly algebraic topology at work.</p> <p>On the other hand, social choice theory is a wide area. It ranges from aggregating preferences to voting and even mechanism design to some extent where tools applied are different.</p> http://mathoverflow.net/questions/68254/mathematicians-working-on-social-choice-theory/68279#68279 Answer by Daniel Moskovich for Mathematicians working on social choice theory Daniel Moskovich 2011-06-20T12:46:19Z 2011-06-20T12:46:19Z <p>The <a href="http://www.ratio.huji.ac.il/" rel="nofollow">Center for the Study of Rationality</a> at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem studies social choice theory among other things. See their <a href="http://www.ratio.huji.ac.il/members.php" rel="nofollow">members list</a> for a list of quite a few mathematicians who have worked on social choice theory.</p>