Social Choice and Strategic Decisions Essays in Honor of Jeffrey S.

Social choices, about expenditures on government programs, or about public policy more broadly, or indeed from any conceivable set of alternatives, are determined by politics. This book is a collection of essays that tie together the fields spanned by Jef

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Jeffrey S. Banks 1958-2000

David Austen-Smith · John Duggan Editors

Social Choice and Strategic Decisions Essays in Honor of Jeffrey S. Banks

With 41 Figures and 17 Tables

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David Austen-Smith Earl Dean Howard Distinguished Professor of Political Economy Department of Managerial Economics & Decision Sciences Kellogg School of Management Northwestern University 2001 Sheridan Road Evanston, IL 60208-2009 USA John Duggan Associate Professor of Political Science and Economics W. Allen Wallis Institute of Political Economy University of Rochester Rochester, NY 14627 USA

Library of Congress Control Number: 2004116749

ISBN 3-540-22053-4

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To Shannon, Bryan, and Danny

Preface

Jeffrey Scot Banks was born on December 15th 1958 in San Diego, California. He received his BA in Political Science from the University of California Los Angeles in 1982 and his PhD in Social Sciences from the California Institute of Technology in 1986. Jeff's first appointment was as an Assistant Professor of Political Science and Economics at the University of Rochester, New York. In 1988 the Political Science department asked if they could put him up for an early tenure decision in Political Science; Jeff denied the request but accepted a promotion to Associate Professor of Political Science and Economics without tenure. Deciding not to risk rejection yet again, the departments of Political Science and Economics at Rochester simply proceeded to promote Jeff to tenured Full Professor of Political Science and Economics in 1991. At least as of the time of writing, Jeff has been the only faculty member in the College of Arts and Science at University of Rochester to receive tenure simultaneously in two departments. Jeff remained at Rochester until 1997 when he joined the Division of Humanities and Social Sciences at the California Institute of Technology. During the intervening yea