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Freedom of choice: John Stuart Mill and the tree of life
(Springer-Verlag, 2012)
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This essay deals with the notion and content of freedom of choice proposing a new set up and a new family of measures for this concept which is, indeed, an ethical value of paramount importance in a well ordered and open ...
The measurement of the value of a language
(Elsevier, 2022)
Artículo / Artikulua,
We address the problem of assessing the value of a language. We consider a stylized model of multilingual societies in which we introduce axioms formalizing the principles of impartiality, monotonicity, invariance and ...
Measuring the cohesiveness of preferences: an axiomatic analysis
(Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2013)
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In this paper, we axiomatically study how to measure the similarity of preferences in a group of individuals. For simplicity, we refer to this as the cohesiveness. First, we provide axioms that characterize a family of ...
Non-anonymous ballot aggregation: an axiomatic generalization of Approval Voting
(Elsevier, 2013)
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We study axiomatically situations in which the society agrees to treat voters with different characteristics distinctly. In this setting, we propose a set of intuitive axioms and show that they jointly characterize a new ...
Sharing the costs of cleaning a river: the Upstream Responsibility rule
(Elsevier, 2015)
Artículo / Artikulua,
The cleaning up of waste present in transboundary rivers, which requires the cooperation of different authorities, is a problematic issue, especially when responsibility for the discharge of the waste is not well-defined. ...
Ranking opportunity profiles through dependent evaluation of policies
(Springer US, 2012)
Artículo / Artikulua,
Rankings to evaluate opportunity distributions present in most of the literature judge a policy (change from one distribution of opportunities to another) on the basis of the changes created and, thus, independently ...
Strategy-proof location of public facilities
(2015)
Documento de trabajo / Lan gaiak,
Agents frequently have different opinions on where to locate a public facility. While some agents consider the facility a good and prefer to have it nearby, others dislike it and would like to see it built far away from ...
Non anonymous ballot aggregation: an axiomatic generalization of Approval Voting
(2011)
Documento de trabajo / Lan gaiak,
We study axiomatically situations in which the society agrees to treat voters with different characteristics distinctly. In this setting, we propose a set of six intuitive axioms and show that they jointly characterize a ...
Sharing the costs of cleaning a river: the upstream responsibility rule
(2013)
Documento de trabajo / Lan gaiak,
The cleaning up of waste present in transboundary rivers, which requires the cooperation of different authorities, is a problematic issue, especially when responsibility for the discharge of the waste is not well-defined. ...
Uncertainty with ordinal likelihood information
(2007)
Documento de trabajo / Lan gaiak,
This paper proposes a new framework of choice under uncertainty, where the only information available to the decision maker is about the the ordinal likelihood of the different outcomes each action generates. This contrasts ...