Social welfare functions when preference
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Ehud Kalai; Eitan Muller; Mark A. Satterthwaite
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Article
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1979
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Springer US
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English
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The paper shows that if the class of admissible preference orderings is restricted in a manner appropriate for economic and political models, then Arrow's impossibility theorem for social welfare functions continues to be valid. Specifically if the space of alternatives isR n, n /> 3, where each dim