Alternative Approaches to Libertarian Rights in the Theory of Social Choice

Kotaro Suzumura

Chapter 13 in Issues in Contemporary Economics, 1991, pp 215-242 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Kenneth Arrow recently told us of an interesting episode in the formative era of social choice theory. It was in the session chaired by Lawrence Klein at the December 1948 Meeting of the Econometric Society that the general possibility theorem was first presented. Arrow recalls: ‘in the audience was this contentious Canadian, David McCord Wright, who objected because among the objectives, [Arrow] hadn’t mentioned freedom as one of the essential values in social choice and apparently he went out of the room saying that Klein and Arrow were communists’ (Kelly, 1987, p. 56).

Keywords: Social Choice; Social Welfare Function; Game Form; Social Choice Function; Social Choice Theory (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1991
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-11573-0_14

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