Mathematical Behavioral Sciences
Books Authored by IMBS Faculty

   Economics
 



Environment and Transport in Economic Modelling
Kenneth A. Small, Roberto Roson
1998, Kluwer Academic Press

A collection of papers on quantitative modeling of problems in the environmental effects of transportation.
            

 Urban Transportation Economics
(Japanese translation published in Japanese Transportation Policy Research Series, Vol. 13)
Kenneth A. Small
1999, Keiso Shobo Ltd., Tokyo



Valuation of Travel-Time Savingss and Predict-ability in Congested Conditions for Highway User-Cost Estimation
Kenneth A. Small, Robert Noland, Xuehao Chu and David Lewis
1999, National Academy Press
This report describes how travel-time savings can be given a monetary value that accounts for uncertainty in travel time for a given trip, and also varies with amount of congestion. Measures are made using stated preference surveys from southern California, in which travelers state their travel choices under various hypothetical scenarios. A separate survey of freight carriers is used to value time and reliability for those firms. The work is incorporated into processes for project evaluation, in which time and reliability play a large role.


Guest editor. Special Issue on "Assessment and Amelioration of Environmental Impacts of Transport"
Journal of Transport Economics and Policy, 34(2)
Guest editor Kenneth A Small
2000



"Why Government Succeeds"
Amihai Glazer and Lawrence Rothenberg
2001, Cambridge: Harvard University Press

    "Chaotic Elections; A Mathematician Looks at Voting"
    Donald G. Saari
    2001, American Mathematical Society
    ISBN 0-8218-2847-9

    This expository book shows how to identify and characterize a disturbingly large number of paradoxical situations the arise from the choice of a voting procedure.  Rather than being able to dismiss them as anomalies, the likelihood of a dubious election result is surprisingly large.  Postive results are obtained

"Decisions and Elections - Explaining the Unexpected"
Donald G. Saari
2001, Cambridge University Press
ISBN #: 0-521-80816-2

It is not uncommon to be frustrated by a decision -- whether in elections, law, economics, engineering,  management, and so forth. Is this due to bad data, bad colleagues, or is there something deeper?  Kenneth Arrow's famed theorem suggests it is a problem we have to accept; his theorem has been interpreted as stating that "No decision procedure is fair."  This seminal result has formed a barrier in searching for positive conclusions.  In this book, this obsticale is removed; as shown,  Arrow's Theorem has a radically different and benign interpretation.  As shown,  the new explanation for Arrow's result holds for a surprisingly large number of other situations  from several areas.  Also, by knowing why Arrow's Theorem arises, positive results can be derived.

 

    "Conflict and Governance"
    Amihai Glazer and Kai Konrad    i
    Amihai Glazer an    olutions appear. The book providesan overview of existing literature, applies the theory of conflict to new situations, and gives foundations for future work. It should interest both researchers and students studying political economy, public choice, international relations, and comparative politics.



Special Issue on Chiness Urban Development
  Kenneth A Small., guest editor
2002, 39(12)




  "Hollywood Economics --How Extreme Uncertainty Shapes the Film Industry"
   Arthur S. De Vany
    2003, Routledge
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Bayesian Econometric Methods
Gary Koop,  Dale J. Poirier, Justin L. Tobias

2007, Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 978-0-521-85571-6 (Hard Cover)
ISBN: 978-0-521-67173-6 ( Paperback )



Disposing Dictators, Demystifying Voting
Paradoxes: Social Choice Analysis
Donald G. Saari

2008, Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 978-0-521-51605-1 Hard Cover
ISBN: 978-0-521-73160-7  Paperback