Background
Gaertner, Wulf Christian was born on December 11, 1942 in Berlin. Son of Herbert Carl and Ursula Helene (Liebald) Gaertner.
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It is probably fair to say that there does not exist a unique and generally accepted not ion of justice. Even if one confines oneself to economic justice one can still get many answers to the question of how justice - henceforth we shall use the term "distributive justice" should be defined and characterized. This may be disappointing for the outside observer but one can also view this as achallenge, at least as long as one thinks that distributive justice is an issue economics should be concerned with. Many problems of distributive justice can be described as follows: There is a fixed collection of well-defined objects (usually commodi ties) which are quantitatively measurable and perfectly divisible. This collection is to be divided up among a certain number of individuals, the members of society, let 's say. According to which principles or rules should this distribution be carried out? Should people be rewarded according to their ability or according to their needs? Should the distribution be such that nobody envies the bundle of any other member of society? Should the collection of entities be distributed in a way that yields the greatest benefi.
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Processes of collective decision making are seen throughout modern society. How does a government decide on an investment strategy within the health care and educational sectors? Should a government or a community introduce measures to combat climate change and CO2 emissions, even if others choose not too? Should a country develop a nuclear capability despite the risk that other countries may follow their lead? This introductory text explores the theory of social choice. Social choice theory provides an analysis of collective decision making. The main aim of the book is to introduce students to the various methods of aggregating the preferences of all members of a given society into some social or collective preference. Written as a primer suitable for advanced undergraduates and graduates, this text will act as an important starting point for students grappling with the complexities of social choice theory. With all new chapter exercises this rigorous yet accessible primer avoids the use of technical language and provides an up-to-date discussion of this rapidly developing field.
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Gaertner, Wulf Christian was born on December 11, 1942 in Berlin. Son of Herbert Carl and Ursula Helene (Liebald) Gaertner.
Diploma, Dr rer. pol. University Bonn, 1969, 1973. Habilitation University Bielefeld, 1978.
Assistant University Bielefeld, Germany, 1973-1978, lecturer, 1978—1980. Professor economics University Osnabrück, Germany, since 1980. Occasional teacher London School of Economics and Political Science, since 2000, Lachmann research professor, since 2006.
Visiting fellow London School of Economics, 2000, All Souls College, Oxford, England, 1984, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1990—1991, 1995—1996. Murphy Institute Distinguished visiting professor Tulane University, New Orleans, 1987.
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Every economist will agree that preferences (tastes) are not constant over time. Experience and learning, habit formation and the social environment seem to be important factors of influence. My early work concentrated on these phenomena and developed a dynamic model of consumer behaviour where emphasis was on social interdependence.
Phenomena such as imitation of other people’s consumption behaviour or the desire to be different from others were some of the items discussed within a difference equation model. Very recently, my interest has come back to systems of difference equations and behavioural patterns over time. Nonlinear difference equations can produce highly regular, but also very irregular time paths.
These patterns seem to contradict the well-known axioms of choice consistency.
Another subject of interest was and still is the existence of soical welfare functions. As is well known, there are
many escape routes from Arrow’s impossibility result. Some of my work concentrated on new domain conditions being both necessary and sufficient for an Arrowian welfare function to exist.
Some other work in the area focussed on the integration of personal rights into the collective choice process: under what kind of conditions is it possible to grant particular rights to individuals, rights that cannot be overridden by society? Some recent work dealt with the issue of distributive justice, investigating the axiomatic structure behind utilitarianism, the Rawlsian theory of justice and other structurally related justice principles.
Member Osnabrücker Friedensgespräche, since 1994. Member executive committee, chairman committee economic and ethics in Verein Socialpolitik, Hamburg, Germany, since 1994. Member Econometric Society, European Economic Association, Gesellschaft Wirtschafts und Sozialwissenschaften.
Married Antje Theresia Hartweg. 1 child, Sabine.