Classical social choice theory relies heavily on the assumption that all individuals have fixed preference orderings‎.‎ This highly original book presents a new theory of social preferences that explicitly accounts for important social phenomena such as coordination‎,‎ compromise‎,‎ negotiation and altruism‎.‎ Drawing on cybernetics and network theory‎,‎ it extends classical social choice theory by constructing a framework that allows for dynamic preferences that are modulated by the situation‎-dependent social influence that they exert on each other‎.‎ In this way the book shows how members of a social network may modulate their preferences to account for social context‎.‎ This important expansion of social choice theory will be of interest to readers in a wide variety of disciplines‎,‎ including economists and political scientists concerned with choice theory as well as computer scientists and engineers working on network theory‎.‎

• Author‎:‎ Wynn C‎.‎ Stirling
• Publisher‎:‎ Cambridge University Press
• ISBN‎:‎ 9781107165168