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[BOOK] Treatise on natural philosophy

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PUBLICATIONS OF THE CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS. A TREATISE ON NATURAL
PHILOSOPHY. By Sir W. Thomson, LL.D., D CL, FRS, Professor of Natural Philosophy in the
University of Glasgow, and PG Tait, MA, Professor of Natural Philosophy in the University ...
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Axiomatic and game-theoretic analysis of bankruptcy and taxation problems: a survey

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W Thomson - Mathematical Social Sciences, 2003 - Elsevier
When a firm goes bankrupt, how should its liquidation value be divided among its creditors?
This essay is an introduction to the literature devoted to the formal analysis of such
problems. We present the rules that are commonly used in practice or discussed in ...
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The fair division of a fixed supply among a growing population

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W Thomson - Mathematics of Operations Research, 1983 - JSTOR
We reconsider the traditional problem of fair division. Division principles should be general
enough to accommodate changes in what is to be divided as well as variations in the
number of agents among whom the division is to take place. In the usual treatment of the ...
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Popular lectures and addresses

W Thomson - Popular lectures and addresses, 1891 - wwww4.com
This is an exact replica of a book. The book reprint was manually improved by a team of
professionals, as opposed to automatic/OCR processes used by some companies.
However, the book may still have imperfections such as missing pages, poor pictures, ...
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On the interpretation of the Nash bargaining solution and its extension to non-expected utility preferences

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A Rubinstein, Z Safra… - Econometrica: Journal of the …, 1992 - JSTOR
The paper reexamines the foundations of the axiomatic Nash bargaining theory. More
specifically it questions the interpretation of the Nash bargaining solution and extends it to a
family of non-expected utility preferences. A bargaining problem is presented as ⟨X,D,≧ ...
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[BOOK] Axiomatic theory of bargaining with a variable number of agents

W Thomson… - 2006 - books.google.com
In this book, Professor Thomson and Professor Lensberg extrapolate upon the Nash (1950)
treatment of the bargaining problem to consider the situation where the number of
bargainers may vary. The authors formulate axioms to specify how solutions should ...
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[CITATION] The doctor-patient relationship

K Browne, P Freeling… - 1976 - getcited.org
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Population-monotonic allocation rules

W Thomson - Social choice, welfare and ethics, 1995 - books.google.com
In the recent developments that have occurred in axiomatic analysis, several requirements
have been formulated that are designed to ensure the good behavior of decision rules, or
solutions, when the number of individuals involved varies. Among these requirements, the ...
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[BOOK] The land and the book, or Biblical illustrations drawn from the manners and customs, the scenes and scenery of the Holy Land

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Page 1. The land and the book, or Biblical illustrations drawn from the manners and customs,
the scenes and scenery of the Holy Land William McClure Thomson Page 2. Asi*.
<)±t8.S9.S,7 ► GRENVILLE H NORCROSS gg HARVARD COLLEGE L1BRARY3&H Page 3. ...
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Problems of fair division and the egalitarian solution

W Thomson - Journal of Economic Theory, 1983 - Elsevier
Abstract The problem of fair division is considered in situations where the number of agents
among whom the division is to take place may vary. The approach is axiomatic. Along with
four familiar axioms, Weak Pareto-optimality, Symmetry, Independence of Irrelevant ...
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Theories of justice based on symmetry

W Thomson… - … : Essays in Memory of Elisha Pazner, 1985 - books.google.com
It is only since Foley [1967] that an ordinal concept of equity, the concept of an envy, free
allocation, has been available for economic, analysis. Since then, Foley's criterion has been
the object of a number of studies. Its various properties and limitations have been ...
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Consistent solutions to the problem of fair division when preferences are single-peaked

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W Thomson - Journal of Economic Theory, 1994 - Elsevier
Abstract We consider the problem of fairly allocating an infinitely divisible commodity among
agents with single-peaked preferences. We search for methods of performing this division,
or solutions, that satisfy the following property of consistency: any recommendation made ...
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No-envy and consistency in economies with indivisible goods

K Tadenuma, W Thomson - Econometrica: Journal of the Econometric …, 1991 - JSTOR
We consider the problem of fair allocation in economies with indivisible goods. Our main
objective is to identify appealing subsolutions of the no-envy solution. We formulate
desirable properties of solutions, and look for solutions satisfying them: given an ...
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Resource-monotonic solutions to the problem of fair division when preferences are single-peaked

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W Thomson - Social Choice and Welfare, 1994 - Springer
We consider the problem of fairly allocating an infinitely divisible commodity among a group
of agents with single-peaked preferences. We search for solutions satisfying resource-
monotonicity, the requirement that all agents be affected in the same direction when the ...
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Can everyone benefit from growth?* 1:: Two difficulties

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H Moulin… - Journal of Mathematical Economics, 1988 - Elsevier
Abstract We consider the problem of fair division in economies where the amount to be
divided may vary. We show that there is no solution to this problem jointly satisfying the
following requirements:(i) Pareto-optimality;(ii) resource monotonicity; an increase in the ...
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Population-monotonic solutions to the problem of fair division when preferences are single-peaked

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W Thomson - Economic Theory, 1995 - Springer
Summary We consider the problem of fairly allocating an infinitely divisible commodity
among agents with single-peaked preferences. First, we examine the implications of the
requirement that a change in the population affect all agents that are present before and ...
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A study of choice correspondences in economies with a variable number of agents

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W Thomson - Journal of Economic Theory, 1988 - Elsevier
Abstract We study correspondences defined over classes of exchange economies and
associating with each element in the class a set of allocations at which resources are
thought to be divided fairly among the agents. We formulate a series of axioms describing ...
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[CITATION] The theory of fair allocation

W Thomson - University of Rochester, Book manuscript, 2005
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[CITATION] Bargaining theory: the axiomatic approach

W Thomson - Submitted for publication, 1994
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The fair allocation of an indivisible good when monetary compensations are possible

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K Tadenuma, W Thomson - Mathematical Social Sciences, 1993 - Elsevier
Abstract We consider the problem of allocating a single indivisible good to one of several
agents when monetary compensations to the losers are possible. We look for solutions to
this problem satisfying the property of consistency, which says that the recommendation ...
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[BOOK] A history of tapestry from the earliest times until the present day

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Page 1. Page 2. Page 3. Page 4. Page 5. lull 3000 T4S Page 6. , fir Page 7. HISTORY
OF TAPESTRY From the Earliest Times until the Present Day '^CrJ TV W.^ G/ THOMSON
Examiner in Art With four plates 1n colour, and numerous ...
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Bargaining problems with claims

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Y Chun… - Mathematical Social Sciences, 1992 - Elsevier
Abstract We enrich the traditional model of bargaining by adding to the disagreement point
and the feasible set a point representing claims (or expectations) that agents may have
when they come to the bargaining table. We assume this point to be outside of the feasible ...
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Games of fair division

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K Tadenuma, W Thomson - Games and Economic Behavior, 1995 - Elsevier
We consider the problem of fairly allocating an indivisible good to one of several agents
equally entitled to it when monetary compensations to the others are possible. Our primary
normative concept is no-envy. First, we show that there is no non-manipulable selection ...
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KSIM: A methodology for interactive resource policy simulation

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J Kane, I Vertinsky… - Water resources research, 1973 - agu.org
A new mathematical language (KSIM) has been developed and designed for interactive
team use. Many features of KSIM make it particularly appropriate for use in formulating
environmental policy.(1) It is easily grasped by the nonmathematical specialist and can ...
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Monotonicity of bargaining solutions with respect to the disagreement point

W Thomson - Journal of Economic Theory, 1987 - Elsevier
Abstract We investigate whether the best known solutions to the bargaining problem
respond appropriately to certain changes in the disagreement point d, for a fixed feasible
set. If di increases, while for each j≠ i, dj remains constant, then these solutions ...
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Monotonicity properties of bargaining solutions when applied to economics

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Y Chun… - Mathematical Social Sciences, 1988 - Elsevier
Abstract We are concerned with the application of bargaining solutions to economic
problems of fair division, and, in particular, with the way they respond to changes in the
amount to be divided. For instance, one may want an increase in that amount to benefit all ...
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On the fair division of a heterogeneous commodity

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M Berliant, W Thomson… - Journal of Mathematical Economics, 1992 - Elsevier
Abstract Consider a heterogeneous but divisible commodity, bundles of which are
represented by the (measurable) subsets of the good. One such commodity might be land.
The mathematics literature has considered agents with utilities that are nonatomic ...
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The replacement principle in economies with single-peaked preferences

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W Thomson - Journal of Economic Theory, 1997 - Elsevier
Our objective is to investigate the implications of the “replacement principle” for the fair
allocation of an infinitely divisible commodity among agents with single-peaked preferences.
The principle says that when one of the components of the data entering the description of ...
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The replacement principle in public good economies with single-peaked preferences

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W Thomson - Economics Letters, 1993 - Elsevier
Abstract We study the implications for a simple public good model with single-peaked
preferences of a 'replacement principle'. We apply the principle to situations when the
preferences of one of the agents may change. Then the principle results in a condition ...
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Black's medical dictionary.

JD Comrie, WAR Thomson - Black's medical dictionary., 1951 - cabdirect.org
In the preparation of the 20th Edition the entire book was reset and full advantage was taken
to preserve what was good in the old editions and to add only those recent advances which would
appear to be standing the test of time. Extensive revision was carried out, but the fundamentals ...
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[CITATION] Axiomatic analyses of bankruptcy and taxation problems: a survey

W Thomson… - 1995 - Rochester Center for Economic …
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[BOOK] Popular Lectures and Addresses: Navigational Affairs

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BWT Kelvin - 1891 - books.google.com
A LARGE part of this volume was already in print when it was decided, and promised in the
Preface to Vol. I., that the second volume should include subjects connected with Geology,
and the third should be chiefly concerned with Maritime affairs. Accordingly, two hundred ...
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[BOOK] A guide for the young economist

W Thomson - 2001 - books.google.com
This book is an invaluable guide for young economists working on their dissertations,
preparing their first articles for submission to professional journals, getting ready for their first
presentations at conferences and job seminars, or facing their first refereeing assignments ...
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Bargaining with uncertain disagreement points

Y Chun… - Econometrica: Journal of the Econometric Society, 1990 - JSTOR
MUCH OF THE UNCERTAINTY concerning the likely outcome of a typical management-
labor conflict pertains to the cost of possible conflict to the two sides. In this paper, we
consider situations of this kind, where the cost of conflict is not known with certainty. ...
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On the axiomatic method and its recent applications to game theory and resource allocation

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W Thomson - Social Choice and Welfare, 2001 - Springer
Abstract. This is a study of the axiomatic method and its recent applications to game theory
and resource allocation. It begins with a user's guide. This guide first describes the
components of an axiomatic study, discusses the logical and conceptual independence of ...
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The manipulability of resource allocation mechanisms

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W Thomson - The Review of Economic Studies, 1984 - restud.oxfordjournals.org
Abstract The vulnerability to manipulate behaviour of resource allocation mechanisms is
evaluated by determining the Nash equilibria of associated manipulation games. Under
manipulation, all monotonic correspondences are essentially equivalent to the Walrasian ...
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Divide-and-permute

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W Thomson - Games and Economic Behavior, 2005 - Elsevier
We construct “simple” games implementing in Nash equilibria several solutions to the
problem of fair division. These solutions are the no-envy solution, which selects the
allocations such that no agent would prefer someone else's bundle to his own, and ...
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[BOOK] Treatise on natural philosophy

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Phys YrtVi > HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY FROM THE FUND OF THOMAS WREN WARD
Treasurer of Harvard College 1830-1842 ... MACMILLAN AND CO. 1 PUBLISHERS TO THE
UNIVERSITY OF ©xforto ... Clanitbon $wss Serbs TREATISE ON NATURAL ...
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A class of solutions to bargaining problems

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W Thomson - Journal of Economic Theory, 1981 - Elsevier
Abstract A reformation of Nash's axiom of Independence of Irrelevant Alternatives is
proposed, generalizing an idea due to Roth. It involves the concept of a reference function g,
whose purpose is to summarize the main features of the bargaining problem and so ...
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Constrained egalitarianism: a new solution for claims problems

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Y Chun, J Schummer… - Seoul Journal of Economics, 2001 - s-space.snu.ac.kr
Abstract We propose a new rule to solve claims problems (O'Neill 1982) and show that this
rule is best in achieving certain objectives of equality, We present three theorems describing
it as the most" egalitarian" among all rules satisfying two minor requirements," estate- ...
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[PDF] Fair allocation rules

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W Thomson - Rochester center for economic research, 2007 - idei.fr
Economists are often criticized for paying little attention to issues of fairness in distribution. It
is indeed true that many shy away from making recommendations on the fair allocation of
goods and services, perhaps fearing the necessary reliance on value judgements of such ...
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Two derivations of the uniform rule and an application to bankruptcy

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J Schummer… - Economics Letters, 1997 - Elsevier
We consider the problem of allocating a single infinitely divisible commodity to agents with
single-peaked preferences, and establish two properties of the rule that has played the
central role in the analysis of this problem, the uniform rule. Among the efficient allocations ...
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Welfare-domination under preference-replacement: A survey and open questions

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W Thomson - Social Choice and Welfare, 1999 - Springer
Abstract. The objective of this paper is to describe various applications of a requirement of
solidarity pertaining to situations in which the preferences of some of the agents may
change. It says that the welfares of all agents whose preferences are fixed should be ...
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[CITATION] The Walrasian mechanism from equal division is not monotonic with respect to variations in the number of consumers

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G Chichilnisky… - Journal of Public Economics, 1987 - econpapers.repec.org
By Graciela Chichilnisky and William Thomson; The walrasian mechanism from equal division
is not monotonic with respect to variations in the number of consumers. ...
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Nash's bargaining solution and utilitarian choice rules

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W Thomson - Econometrica: Journal of the Econometric Society, 1981 - JSTOR
Note that for e in R+ x R, if S is in X, so is Ve (S) and if (S, d) is in X'so is (Ve (S), Ve (d)). HI
denotes the class of permutations of order n. Given S in 2 and 7r in H, r (S)={ye nly= ir (x), x
ES}. Note that for v in H, if S is in X, so is ir (S), and if (S, d) is in 2", so is (Xr (S), IT (d)).
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Monotonic extensions on economic domains

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W Thomson - Review of Economic Design, 1999 - Springer
Abstract. The property of “monotonicity” is necessary, and in many contexts, sufficient, for a
solution to be Nash implementable (Maskin 1977). In this paper, we follow Sen (1995) and
evaluate the extent to which a solution may fail monotonicity by identifying the minimal ...
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Equity in exchange economies

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W Thomson - Journal of Economic Theory, 1983 - Elsevier
Abstract Let ψ be a “fair” choice correspondence, ie, ψ associates to every economy in some
initial position a set of final allocations at which the gains from trade have been fairly
distributed. We propose to declare equitable any final allocation which is invariant under ...
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[CITATION] Materials and structure of music

W Christ, R DeLone, V Kliewer, L Rowell… - 1973 - getcited.org
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Notions of equal, or equivalent, opportunities

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W Thomson - Social Choice and Welfare, 1994 - Springer
We formulate and study three concepts of equity designed to capture certain notions of
“equal”, or “equivalent”, opportunities. The central concept is that of a family of choice sets.
Given such a family B, a feasible allocation z is alternatively required to be such that (i) ...
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CONCEPTS OF IMPLEMENTATION*

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W Thomson - Japanese Economic Review, 1996 - Wiley Online Library
The Japanese Economic Review Vol. 47, No. 2, June 1996 ... The purpose of this note is to present
and discuss various notions of implementation that have been used in the literature. Its main
focus is on the considerations that should guide the choice of the required relationship ...
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Two characterizations of the Raiffa solution

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W Thomson - Economics Letters, 1980 - Elsevier
Abstract It is shown when and how the two-person bargaining solution proposed by Raiffa
can be generalized to the n-person case. Two characterizations are proposed involving the
familiar axioms of Pareto-optimality, Symmetry, and Invariance, as well as two new ...
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Refinements of the no-envy solution in economies with indivisible goods

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K Tadenuma, W Thomson - Theory and decision, 1995 - Springer
We consider the problem of fair allocation in economies with indivisible goods. Our primary
concept is that of an envy-free allocation, that is, an allocation such that no agent would
prefer anyone else's bundle to his own. Since there typically is a large set (a continuum) of ...
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Nash solution and uncertain disagreement points

Y Chun… - Games and Economic Behavior, 1990 - Elsevier
Abstract We analyze bargaining problems with known feasible sets but uncertain
disagreement points. We investigate the existence of solutions such that, under reasonably
restricted circumstances, all agents be as well off by reaching an agreement today as they ...
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Claims problems and weighted generalizations of the Talmud rule

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T Hokari… - Economic Theory, 2003 - Springer
Summary. We investigate the existence of consistent rules for the resolution of conflicting
claims that generalize the Talmud rule but do not necessarily satisfy equal treatment of
equal. The first approach we follow starts from the description of the Talmud rule in the two ...
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[CITATION] The vulnerability to manipulative behavior of resource allocation mechanisms designed to select equitable and efficient outcomes

W Thomson… - 1982 - Harvard Institute of Economic …
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A new solution to the problem of adjudicating conflicting claims

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D Dominguez, W Thomson - Economic Theory, 2006 - Springer
Summary. For the problem of adjudicating conflicting claims, we consider the requirement
that each agent should receive at least 1/n his claim truncated at the amount to divide, where
n is the number of claimants (Moreno-Ternero and Villar, 2004a). We identify two families ...
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[CITATION] Popular Lectures and Addresses: Constitution of Matter

W Thomson - 1891 - MacMillan
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[CITATION] Population-monotonic solutions in public good economies with single-peaked preferences

S Ching… - RCER Working Papers, 1993 - ideas.repec.org
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A refinement and extension of the no-envy concept

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D Diamantaras… - Economics Letters, 1990 - Elsevier
Abstract We propose a new criterion of equity in the spirit of Foley's (1967) no-envy concept.
We prove the existence of efficient allocations satisfying this criterion for a class of
economies containing many for which envy-free and efficient allocations do not exist; ...
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An informationally efficient equity criterion

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W Thomson - Journal of Public Economics, 1982 - Elsevier
Abstract A new equity criterion for exchange economies is proposed, an allocation being
declared equitable if no agent prefers the average of what everyone else consumes to what
he consumes. The logical relationship of this criterion with other criteria in the published ...
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The young person's guide to writing economic theory

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W Thomson - Journal of Economic Literature, 1999 - JSTOR
HERE ARE MY recommendations for writing economic theory (and, to some extent, giving
seminar presentations). My intended audience is young economists working on their
dissertations or preparing their first papers for submission to a professional journal. ...
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Monotonicity, stability and egalitarianism

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W Thomson - Mathematical Social Sciences, 1984 - Elsevier
Abstract Adivision problem is a subset of the utility space representing the alternatives
available to a group of agents. Asolution is a method of selecting from each division problem
in some class an equitable compromise. Theegalitarian solution selects the only ...
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[CITATION] Presidential address to the British Association

W Thomson - Popular lectures and addresses. MacMillan and …, 1871
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Functional ambiguity in musical structures

W Thomson - Music Perception, 1983 - JSTOR
This paper first establishes a definition of ambiguity and its significance to art and to
perception in general. Its understanding is framed within a hierarchical conception of
musical structure most similar to that of Leonard B. Meyer (1956, 1973). Following (1) an ...
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Chapter Twenty-One-Fair Allocation Rules

T William - Handbook of Social Choice and Welfare, 2011 - Elsevier
Abstract We review the theory of fairness as it pertains to concretely specified problems of
resource allocations. We present punctual notions designed to evaluate how well
individuals, or groups, are treated in relation to one another: no-envy, egalitarian- ...
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Group order preservation and the proportional rule for the adjudication of conflicting claims

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CP Chambers… - Mathematical Social Sciences, 2002 - Elsevier
We investigate the existence of rules for the adjudication of conflicting claims satisfying
'group order preservation': given two groups of claimants, suppose that the sum of the claims
of the members of the first group is greater than or equal to the sum of the claims of the ...
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[CITATION] Tonality in music: A general theory

W Thomson - 1999 - Everett Books
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Economies with public goods: an elementary geometric exposition

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W Thomson - Journal of Public Economic Theory, 1999 - Wiley Online Library
This paper explains how to represent economies with one private good, one public good,
and two agents when the public good is produced from the private good by operating a
linear technology, by means of the so-called “Kolm triangle.” It also shows the usefulness ...
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The replacement principle in economies with indivisible goods

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W Thomson - Social Choice and Welfare, 1997 - Springer
Abstract. We consider the problem of allocating a list of indivisible goods and some amount
of an infinitely divisible good among agents with equal rights on these resources, and
investigate the implications of the following requirement on allocation rules: when the ...
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[CITATION] The rhythm of speech

W Thomson - 1923 - Maclehose, Jackson and Co.
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Consistent solutions in atomless economies

W Thomson… - Econometrica: Journal of the Econometric Society, 1993 - JSTOR
We consider the problem of allocating a bundle of commodities among a group of agents
who are collectively entitled to them. We prove: For an atomless economy with possibly
satiated preferences, any solution that is efficient, equitable, and consistent must select ...
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Convergence under replication of rules to adjudicate conflicting claims

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Y Chun… - Games and Economic Behavior, 2005 - Elsevier
We study the behavior of rules for the adjudication of conflicting claims when there is a large
number of claimants with small claims. We model such situations by replicating some basic
problem. We show that under replication, the random arrival rule [Math. Soc. Sci. 2 (1982) ...
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[CITATION] Kelvin's Baltimore lectures and modern theoretical physics: historical and philosophical perspectives

R Kargon, P Achinstein… - 1987 - The MIT Press
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[PDF] Eliciting production possibilities from a well-informed manager

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W Thomson - Journal of Economic Theory, 1979 - conservancy.umn.edu
A series of recent papers have been concerned with the issue of incentives in the context of
the Soviet firm. Their general structure is the following: information is exchanged between
the manager of a given firm and the planning authority or center. Then production takes ...
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Contribution of hardiness and school climate to alienation experienced by student teachers

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WC Thomson… - The Journal of Educational Research, 1995 - Taylor & Francis
Page 1. Contribution of Hardiness and School Climate to Alienation Experienced by Student
Teachers WILLLAM C. THOMSON Baa state university ABSTRACT Teacher alienation bas
been related to job satisfrrction, student learning, and burnout. ...
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Increasing access to medical education for students from medically underserved communities: one program's success

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WA Thomson, PG Ferry, JE King… - Academic …, 2003 - journals.lww.com
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On monotonicity in economies with indivisible goods

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W Thomson - Social Choice and Welfare, 2003 - Springer
We consider the problem of fair allocation in economies with indivisible objects that may or
may not be desirable (for instance, activities that may or may not be pleasurable but have to
be carried out unless there are not enough agents for that). We search for efficient ...
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[CITATION] Axiomatic Theory of Bargaining With a Variable Population

W Thomson… - 1989 - Cambridge University Press
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[CITATION] The “Doctrine of Uniformity” in geology briefly refuted

W Thomson - Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 1866
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Cost allocation and airport problems

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Abstract:" We consider the problem of dividing the cost of a facility when agents can be
ordered in terms of the need they have for it, and accommodating an agent with a certain
need allows accommodating all agents with lower needs at no extra cost. This problem is ...
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Promoting diversity in the medical school pipeline: a national overview

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[CITATION] The equilibrium allocations of Walras and Lindahl manipulation games

W Thomson - 1979 - conservancy.umn.edu
Thomson, W., (1979), "The Equilibrium Allocations of Walras and Lindahl Manipulation
Games", Discussion Paper No. 111, Center for Economic Research, Department of
Economics, University of Minnesota. ... Items in the Digital Conservancy are protected by ...
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On the non existence of envy-free and egalitarian-equivalent allocations in economies with indivisibilities

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W Thomson - Economics Letters, 1990 - Elsevier
Abstract We consider economies with indivisible goods (houses, jobs) and one infinitely
divisible good. An allocation is envy-free if no agent prefers someone else's consumption to
his own. An allocation is egalitarian-equivalent if there is a reference bundle that every ...
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Operators for the adjudication of conflicting claims

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W Thomson… - Journal of Economic Theory, 2008 - Elsevier
We consider the problem of allocating some amount of an infinitely divisible and
homogeneous resource among agents having claims on this resource that cannot be jointly
honored. A “rule” associates with each such problem a feasible division. Our goal is to ...
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[CITATION] An account of the life, lectures, and writings of William Cullen

J Thomson, M Barfoot, W Thomson, D Craigie… - 1997 - Thoemmes Press
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Two families of rules for the adjudication of conflicting claims

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W Thomson - Social Choice and Welfare, 2008 - Springer
Abstract We define two families of rules to adjudicate conflicting claims. The first family
contains the constrained equal awards, constrained equal losses, Talmud, and minimal
overlap rules. The second family, which also contains the first two of these rules, is ...
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[PDF] A mathematical theory of magnetism

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2. Magnetic bodies, when ptt near one another, in general exert very sensible mutual forces;
but a body which is not magnetic, can experience no force in virtue of the magnetism of
bodies in its neighbourhood. It may indeed be observed that a body, M, will exert a force ...
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The values scale: differences across grade levels for ethnic minority students

BD Walsh, T Vacha-Haase, JT Kapes… - Educational and …, 1996 - epm.sagepub.com
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The Values Scale: Differences Across Grade Levels for Ethnic Minority Students
Beverly Dolenz Walsh, Tammi Vacha-Haase, Jerome T. Kapes ...
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[CITATION] A clarification of the tonality concept

WE Thomson - 1952 - University Microfilms
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Egalitarian solutions and uncertain disagreement points

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Y Chun… - Economics Letters, 1990 - Elsevier
Abstract We consider bargaining problems with uncertain disagreement points. We search
for solutions providing agents the incentive to reach agreements before the uncertainty is
resolved. We identify the weighted Egalitarian solutions as being the only ones in the ...
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Hindemith's contribution to music theory

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W Thomson - Journal of Music Theory, 1965 - JSTOR
WILLIAM THOMSON sical reality, how it is and why it must be as it is. Like Schenker before
him-like all others who profess a knowledge of reality untainted by human frailty-Hindemith
found it possible to separate good music from bad, to sort out the well-wrought from the ...
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Children crying at birthday parties. Why?

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W Thomson - Economic Theory, 2007 - Springer
Abstract We consider the problem of dividing a non-homogeneous one-dimensional
continuum whose endpoints are topologically identified. Examples are the division of a
birthday cake, the partition of a circular market, the assignment of sentry duty or medical ...
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[CITATION] The lord advocates of Scotland: 2d series, 1834-1880

GWT Omond - 1914 - A. Melrose, ltd.
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[BOOK] The land and the book; or, Biblical illustrations drawn from the manners and customs, the scenes and scenery of the Holy land

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the scenes and scenery of the Holy land William McClure Thomson Page 2. BODLEIAN LIBRARY
DUNN BEQUEST Page 3. Page 4. BODLEIAN LIBRARY DUNN BEQUEST Page 5. ...
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[CITATION] Orkney farm-names: A re-assessment of their chronology

WPL Thomson - Scandinavian Settlement in Northern Britain, 1995
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The harmonic root: A fragile marriage of concept and percept

W Thomson - Music Perception, 1993 - JSTOR
The word root, and the harmonic metabolism it helps to describe, plays a central role in how
musicians think about musical structure. Vaguely implicit in some early writers' descriptions
of intervals and scales, it awaited Rameau's discussions (1722/1971) of the fundamental ...
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[CITATION] Octavia Hill: Pioneer of the National Trust and housing reformer

WT Hill - 1956 - Hutchinson
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[CITATION] Sir John Herschel and Education at the Cape, 1834-1840

WT Ferguson… - 1961
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[CITATION] Preserving the Whangamarino Wetland: An Application of the Contingent Valuation Method: a Thesis Presented in Partial Fulfilment of the Requirements …

WT Kirkland - 1988 - Massey University
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[CITATION] Brain and personality

WH Thomson - 1919 - Dodd, Mead & Co
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