A simple graphical proof of arrow's impossibility theorem

John Fountain

New Zealand Economic Papers, 2000, vol. 34, issue 1, 89-110

Abstract: This paper uses a two-dimensional graphical technique to provide a constructive proof of Arrow's impossibility theorem. Students (and instructors) of intermediate microeconomics should have no problem in following the graphical proof developed here. The meaning of the condition of independence of irrelevant alternatives and its function in Arrow's theorem become transparent in this proof.

Date: 2000
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