Economic Theory in Retrospect or Fair Division

Economic Theory in Retrospect

Author: Mark Blaug

This is a history of economic thought from Adam Smith to John Maynard Keynes--but it is a history with a difference. Firstly, it is history of economic theory, not of economic doctrines. Secondly, it includes detailed Reader's Guides to nine of the major texts of economics in the effort to encourage students to become acquainted at first hand with the writings of all the great economists. This fifth edition adds new Reader's Guides to Walras' Elements of Pure Economics and Keynes' General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money as well as major additions to the chapters on marginal productivity theory, general equilibrium theory and welfare economics.

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Fair Division: From Cake-Cutting to Dispute Resolution

Author: Steven J J Brams

Fair Division, unlike most research on fairness in the social sciences and mathematics, is devoted solely to the analysis of constructive procedures for actually dividing things up and resolving disputes, including indivisible items or issues, such as the marital property in a divorce or sovereignty in an international dispute.

Table of Contents:

	List of figures
	List of tables
	Acknowledgements
	Introduction	1
1	Proportionality for n = 2	6
2	Proportionality for n > 2: the divisible case	30
3	Proportionality for n > 2: the indivisible case	51
4	Envy-freeness and equitability for n = 2	65
5	Applications of the point-allocation procedures	95
6	Envy-free procedures for n = 3 and n = 4	115
7	Envy-free procedures for arbitrary n	129
8	Divide-the-dollar	158
9	Fair division by auctions	178
10	Fair division by elections	204
11	Conclusions	231
	Glossary	237
	Bibliography	248
	Index	264