Why the Law Is So Perverse
- ISBN-10
- 0226426033
- ISBN-13
- 9780226426037
- Category
- Law
- Pages
- 239
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2011-09
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Author
- Leo Katz
Description
Katz asserts that these perversions arise out of a cluster of logical difficulties related to multicriterial decision making. The discovery of these difficulties dates back to Condorcet's eighteenth-century exploration of voting rules, which marked the beginning of what we know today as social choice theory. Condorcet's voting cycles, Arrow's Theorem, Sen's Libertarian Paradox--every seeming perversity of the law turns out to be the counterpart of one of the many voting paradoxes that lie at the heart of social choice. Katz's lucid explanations and apt examples show why they resist any easy resolutions."--Pub. desc.
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