Social Choice as a Continuous Mapping from IRn->IR: A Group Invariance Approach

Lyle Noakes () and Alex Coram
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Lyle Noakes: School of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley WA6009, Australia

Journal of Reviews on Global Economics, 2014, vol. 3, 394-400

Abstract: Social choice is studied by employing a group invariance approach in a way that appears not to have been previously been exploited. This simplifies the problem and the proofs and provides some new insights into the foundations of impossibility results.

Keywords: Aggregating preferences; welfare function; group actions (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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