Social Welfare Functions that Satisfy Pareto, Anonymity, and Neutrality: Countable Many Alternatives
Donald Campbell () and
Jerry Kelly ()
Additional contact information Donald Campbell: Department of Economics, College of William and Mary
Jerry Kelly: Department of Economics, Syracuse University
Abstract:
For a finite number of alternatives, in the presence of Pareto, non-dictatorship, full domain, and transitivity, an extremely weak independence condition is incompatible with each of anonymity and neutrality (Campbell and Kelly [2006]). This paper explores how those results are affected when there are countably many alternatives.