Social Goals And Social Organization: Essays In Memory Of El

Description:
Published as a tribute to the memory of Elisha Pazner, this book contains a collection of essays providing a comprehensive view of the design and evaluation of economic mechanisms, written and edited by the major contributors to the field. Amongst the topics included are bargaining theory and the economics of competitive bidding. The surveys are preceded by 'A Perspective', by Leo Hurwicz which contains a systematic account of the development of the literature on mechanism design, and this provides a context for both the surveys and the six published papers authored or co-authored by Elisha Pazner that complete the book and demonstrate Pazner's interest in and contribution to the study of economic mechanisms. Leonid Hurwitcz is the Nobel Prize Winner 2007 for The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, along with colleagues Eric Maskin and Roger Myerson, for his work on the effectiveness of markets.

Table of Contents:
Elisha A. Pazner; Editors' preface; List of contributors; 1. A perspective Leonid Hurwicz; Part 1. The Surveys: 2. Axioms for social welfare orderings Claude d'Aspremont; 3. Solutions to the bargaining problem Ehud Kalai; 4. Theories of justice based on symmetry William Thomson and Hal R. Varian; 5. Strategy-proofness: the existence of dominant-strategy mechanisms Eitan Muller and Mark A. Satterthwaite; 6. The theory of implementation in Nash equilibrium: a survey Eric S. Maskin; 7. Implementation via Nash equilibria in economic environments Andrew Postlewaite; 8. Bayesian equilibrium and incentive-compatibility: an introduction Roger B. Myerson; 9. The economics of competitive bidding: a selective survey Paul R. Milgrom; Part II. Six Papers by Elisha A. Pazner: 10. A difficulty in the concept of fairness (with David Schmeidler); 11. Recent thinking on economic justice; 12. Social contract theory and ordinal distributive equity (with David Schmeidler); 13. Pitfalls in the theory of fairness; 14. Cheatproofness properties of the plurality rule in large societies (with Eugene Wesley); 15. Egalitarian equivalent allocations: a new concept of economic equity (with David Schmeidler); Author index; Subject index.