Public goods and Arrovian social choice
β Scribed by Donald E. Campbell
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 1992
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 758 KB
- Volume
- 9
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0176-1714
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β¦ Synopsis
A social welfare function satisfying Arrow's independence axiom is constant or authoritarian if it generates continuous and transitive social preferences over the space of allocations of public and private goods, and individual preferences have the classical economic properties. The social welfare function will be oligarchial if it generates continuous and quasitransitive social preferences and satisfies a weak version of the Pareto criterion in addition to the independence axiom.
π SIMILAR VOLUMES
We characterize strategy-proof social choice functions when individuals have strictly quasi-concave, continuous and satiated utility functions on convex subsets of IR m, representing preferences for the provision of m pure public goods. When specialized to the case m = 1, these assumptions amount to