Social choices, about expenditures on government programs, or about public policy more broadly, or indeed from any conceivable set of alternatives, are determined by politics. This book is a collection of essays that tie together the fields spanned by Jeffrey S. Banks' research on this subject....

This book includes up-to-date contributions in the broadly defined area of probabilistic analysis of voting rules and decision mechanisms. Featuring papers from all fields of social choice and game theory, it presents probability arguments to allow readers to gain a better understanding of the...

August Lösch (1906-1945) is one of the classics of spatial economic theory. His most important work, “The Spatial Order of the Economy“ (Jena 1940), translated into English in 1954 under the - slightly misleading - title “The Economics of Location“, became internationally recognized as...