Duncan Black
Duncan Black | |
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| Born | 23 May 1908 |
Duncan Black,
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, and was responsible for the Black electoral system, a Condorcet method whereby, in the absence of a Condorcet winner (e.g. due to a cycle), the Borda winner is chosen.[1]
Biography
Black was born in
Theory of the Firm. He later taught at the University College of North Wales (now Bangor University
) and Glasgow.
Black also had visiting positions in the United States, at the universities of Rochester, Chicago, Virginia and Michigan State. These occurred after William H. Riker reviewed his work in 1961.[3][4] He was elected a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1980.[5]
Archives
The archives for Duncan Black are maintained by the Archives of the University of Glasgow (GUAS).
See also
- Median voter theorem
- Public choice theory
References
- ^ Eamonn Butler, Public Choice: A Primer, London: Institute of Economic Affairs, 2012, p. 32 [1]
- ISBN 0-226-11102-4 – via Internet Archive.
- ^ W. Riker, Voting and the Summation of Preferences: An Interpretive Bibliographical Review of Selected Developments During the Last Decade, American Political Science Review, 55 (1961).
- ^ The Theory of Committees and Elections by Duncan Black, and Committee Decisions with Complementary Valuation by Duncan Black and R. A. Newing, Revised Second Editions, edited by Iain McLean, Alistair McMillan and Burt Monroe, Kluwer Academic Publishing, 1998.
- ^ "Book of Members, 1780–2010: Chapter B" (PDF). American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 26 July 2011.
Further reading
- Black, Duncan (1948). "On the Rationale of Group Decision-making". Journal of Political Economy. 56: 23–34. S2CID 153953456.
- Black, Duncan (1958). The Theory of Committees and Elections. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Bernard Grofman (1987 [2008]), "Black, Duncan," The New Palgrave: A Dictionary of Economics, v. 1, pp. 250–51.
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