Kenneth Arrow’s impossibility theorem stretching to other fields

Wulf Gaertner

Public Choice, 2019, vol. 179, issue 1, No 7, 125-131

Abstract: Abstract Arrow’s impossibility result not only had a profound influence on welfare economics, but was, as this paper shows, also widely discussed in philosophy of science and in the engineering design literature.

Keywords: Arrow’s impossibility theorem; Social choice; Philosophy of science; Engineering design (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1007/s11127-018-0503-y

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