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Are we done with preference rankings? If we are, then what?

Hannu Nurmi (hnurmi@utu.fi)

Operations Research and Decisions, 2014, vol. 24, issue 4, 63-74

Abstract: Intransitive, incomplete and discontinuous preferences are not always irrational but may be based on quite reasonable considerations. Hence, we pursue the possibility of building a theory of social choice on an alternative foundation, viz. on individual preference tournaments. Tournaments have been studied for a long time independently of rankings and a number of results are therefore just waiting to be applied in social choice. Our focus is on Slater’s rule. A new interpretation of the rule is provided.

Keywords: preferences; Slater’s rule; social choice (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.5277/ord140405

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