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"Yongsheng Xu"
Titel: On Measuring Personal Connections and the Extent of Social Networks
Autor: Prasanta K. Pattanaik / Yongsheng Xu
Seite: 290-310
Abstract: The notions of personal connection and social networks are key ingredients of the increasingly important concept of social capital in social sciences in general and in economics in particular. This paper discusses the problem of measuring personal connection and the extent of social networks that may exist in a society. For this purpose we develop several conceptual and analytical frameworks. In the process, we axiomatically characterize several measures of personal connection and social networks.
Titel: Norm-Constrained Choices
Autor: Yongsheng Xu
Seite: 329-339
Abstract: This paper develops a general and unified framework to discuss individual choice behaviors that are constrained by the individual’s internalized norms. We propose a new notion of rationalizablity of a choice function that incorporates such constraints, and axiomatically study several norm-constrained choice behaviors.
Perspectives on Social Choice
2007 (29) Heft 2
Guest-Editor: Marlies Ahlert
Editorial
Introduction and Overview
This volume of Analyse & Kritik approaches social choice from different angles. Each of the papers thematically has some relation with the work of Wulf Gaertner. This provides some topical unity to the volume. However, other than in case of a typical Festschrift the refereed papers are in all other regards independent contributions to the field of social choice as very widely understood. Methods reach from axiomatic analyses over experiments to simulations and from t...