Over two centuries of theory and practical experience have taught us that election and decision procedures do not behave as expected. Instead, we now know that when different tallying methods are applied to the same ballots, radically different outcomes can emerge, that most procedures can...

This book is intended for the student or researcher who could benefit from functional analytic methods, but who does not have an extensive background and does not plan to make a career as an analyst. It develops topology, convexity, Banach lattices, integration, correspondences (multifunctions),...

The volume contains the proceedings of a conference in ma- thematical economics held at the California Institute of Technology, April 16-20, 1990.The theme of the conference was to explore the functional analytic techniques (and in particular the theory of Riesz spaces and positive opera- tors)...