Choice Theory Network

选择理论网络

基本信息

批准号：
AH/H001166/1
负责人：
Richard Bradley
金额：
$ 4.74万
依托单位：
London School of Economics and Political Science
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Research Grant
财政年份：
2009
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2009 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FH001166%2F1
关键词：
Choice Theory Network

项目摘要

Questions about what action to take or what policy to pursue arise in a great variety of contexts for both individuals and groups. Consumers have to decide what products to buy, doctors what treatments to prescribe, hiring committees what candidates to appoint, juries whether to convict or acquit a defendant, aid organisations what projects to fund, monetary policy committees what interest rates to set, electorates what representatives to select, and legislatures what laws to make. How such decisions are actually made, and how ideally they should be, is investigated in several disciplines in the humanities and the social sciences, including philosophy, political science, economics, law and psychology. The Choice Group is an interdisciplinary research initiative based at the LSE which seeks to create a European centre of excellence for research and research-led teaching on philosophical, mathematical and empirical questions concerning decision making by individuals and groups. Currently the group runs an informal weekly seminar series at the LSE with the participation of academic staff and research students from the London area. Despite its present lack of funding it has already gained considerable momentum and popularity and is regarded by many as a place of choice to present their work in the field. With the proposed network grant, the group seeks to extend and further develop its activities and to create more formal links with salient partner institutions, including the University of Groningen, Netherlands, the CNRS/HEC Paris, France, the University of Edinburgh, the National University of Ireland at Galway, the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor and the University of California at Irvine, USA. In addition to significantly upgrading its seminar series, the Choice Group intends to host a series of master classes in its core areas and to organise a series of interdisciplinary workshops with our partners. While the master classes will provide an overview of the current state of art of various topics in rational and social choice theory, the workshops will advance their frontiers. The core members of the research group have published widely in top journals in philosophy, political science and economics and are well known for their research on Bayesian decision theory, group deliberation, democratic theory, the aggregation of preferences and judgements, the foundations of welfare economics, and evolutionary explanations of norms. The presence of a relatively large number of experts in the field at a single institution already generates considerable synergies, but the creation of a network will significantly enhance these and thereby benefit the field and the academic community as a whole.

对于个人和团体来说，在各种各样的情况下都会出现关于采取什么行动或推行什么政策的问题。消费者必须决定购买什么产品，医生开什么治疗方法，招聘委员会任命什么候选人，陪审团是否对被告定罪或无罪，援助组织资助什么项目，货币政策委员会设定什么利率，选举什么代表选择立法机关制定哪些法律。这些决定实际上是如何做出的，以及它们应该如何理想，在人文和社会科学的多个学科中进行了研究，包括哲学、政治学、经济学、法学和心理学。 Choice Group 是伦敦经济学院的一项跨学科研究计划，旨在创建一个欧洲卓越中心，针对个人和团体决策的哲学、数学和经验问题进行研究和研究主导的教学。目前，该小组在伦敦经济学院举办每周一次的非正式研讨会系列，来自伦敦地区的学术人员和研究生参与其中。尽管目前缺乏资金，但它已经获得了相当大的动力和知名度，并被许多人视为展示其在该领域的工作的首选场所。通过拟议的网络拨款，该小组寻求扩大和进一步发展其活动，并与重要的合作机构建立更正式的联系，包括荷兰格罗宁根大学、法国国家科学研究中心/巴黎高等商学院、爱丁堡大学、英国国立大学爱尔兰大学戈尔韦分校、密歇根大学安娜堡分校和美国加州大学欧文分校。除了大幅升级其研讨会系列外，Choice Group 还打算在其核心领域举办一系列大师班，并与我们的合作伙伴组织一系列跨学科研讨会。虽然大师班将概述理性和社会选择理论中各个主题的当前状态，但研讨会将推进其前沿。课题组核心成员在哲学、政治学、经济学等顶级期刊上发表广泛论文，在贝叶斯决策理论、群体协商、民主理论、偏好与判断聚合、福利经济学基础等方面的研究享有盛誉。，以及规范的进化解释。单一机构中该领域相对较多的专家已经产生了相当大的协同效应，但网络的创建将显着增强这些协同效应，从而使该领域和整个学术界受益。