Acyclic and continuous social choice inT1connected spaces

✍ Scribed by Ryo-ichi Nagahisa

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 1991
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 875 KB
• Volume: 8
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0176-1714
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00183043

✦ Synopsis

In this paper, we prove some versions of the Arrovian impossibility theorem in T~ connected alternatives spaces, with the collective rationality condition weakened from transitivity to acyclicity, the Pareto condition replaced by some weaker conditions, and a continuity condition of social preferences imposed. Moreover these impossibility theorems are applied to a distributive problem of private goods in economic environments.

* This is a revised version of my Working Paper No. 111. I would like to thank two anonymous referees of the journal for their insightful cmmnents. This paper was reported at the Western Meeting of