Liberty, equality, and impossibility: some general results in the space of ‘soft’ preferences

S. Subramanian

Journal of Economic Policy Reform, 2010, vol. 13, issue 4, 325-341

Abstract: This paper is concerned with examining the mutual compatibility of the ethical principles of equity and liberty in a social choice framework of ordinally formulated vague preferences. With sufficiently weakened versions of the liberty and equity principles, one can secure an existence result in a ‘relation‐functional’ setting. However, difficulties tend to re‐appear in a ‘choice‐functional’ setting, when one subscribes to the notion that while preference may be vague, choice must perforce be exact.

Date: 2010
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DOI: 10.1080/17487870.2010.523970

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