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Power and Responsibility

Interdisciplinary Perspectives for the 21st Century in Honor of Manfred J. Holler

  • Written in honor of Manfred J. Holler’s 75th birthday

  • Presents current research on topics such as public choice, game theory, and political economy

  • Features contributions by leading scholars from various disciplines

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Table of contents (21 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
  2. Manfred on His 75th Birthday

    • Heinz D. Kurz
    Pages 1-12
  3. Economics and Philosophy

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 13-13
    2. Three Types of Dramatic Irony

      • Timo Airaksinen
      Pages 15-30
  4. Voting and Voting Power

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 105-105
    2. The Art and Beauty of Voting Power

      • Sascha Kurz, Alexander Mayer, Stefan Napel
      Pages 125-141
    3. An Application of Power Indices for the Family of Weighted Majority Games in Partition Function Form

      • J. M. Alonso-Meijide, L. M. Armijos-Toro, B. Casas-Méndez, M. A. Mosquera
      Pages 143-164
    4. Measuring Voting Power in Complex Shareholding Structures: A Public Good Index Approach

      • Izabella Stach, Jacek Mercik, Cesarino Bertini
      Pages 165-183
    5. Voting On or About God

      • Mario Ferrero
      Pages 185-201
    6. The Liblice Castle Story

      • DuÅ¡an Tříska
      Pages 221-237
    7. Lexicographic Ranking Based on Minimal Winning Coalitions

      • M. Aleandri, V. Fragnelli, S. Moretti
      Pages 239-256
  5. Public Economics, Politics and Responsibility

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 271-271
    2. Why Did Japan Attack Pearl Harbor?

      • Ronald Wintrobe
      Pages 273-285

About this book

Written by leading scholars from various disciplines, this book presents current research on topics such as public choice, game theory, and political economy. It features contributions on fundamental, methodological, and empirical issues around the concepts of power and responsibility that strive to bridge the gap between different disciplinary approaches. The contributions fall into roughly four sub-disciplines: voting and voting power, public economics and politics, economics and philosophy, as well as labor economics.

On the occasion of his 75th birthday, this book is written in honor of Manfred J. Holler, an economist by training and profession whose work as a guiding light has helped advance our understanding of the interdisciplinary connections of concepts of power and responsibility. He has written many articles and books on game theory, and worked extensively on questions of labor economics, politics, and philosophy. 


Keywords

  • Public choice
  • Game theory
  • Political economy
  • Philosophy
  • Quantitative economics
  • voting and voting power
  • labor economics
  • Social Choice and Welfare

Editors and Affiliations

  • Pforzheim University of Applied Sciences, Pforzheim, Germany

    Martin A. Leroch

  • Kutaisi International University, Kutaisi, Georgia

    Florian Rupp

About the editors

Martin Leroch is a Professor of Economics and Ethics for Economics and Business at Pforzheim University (Germany). His research focuses on Philosophy & Economics, Behavioral Economics and Law & Economics.


Florian Rupp is a Professor of Mathematics at the Kutaisi International University (Germany). His research interests comprise dynamical systems, their stability and bifurcations, and applications in Biology and in the Social Sciences.

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eBook USD 149.00
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Hardcover Book USD 199.99
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