Arrow and the Problem of Social Choice

Kotaro Suzumura and Koichi Suga

Chapter 7 in Arrow and the Foundations of the Theory of Economic Policy, 1987, pp 255-271 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract According to Kenneth Arrow, ‘the problem of social choice is the aggregation of the multiplicity of individual preference scales about alternative social actions’ (Arrow 1967, p. 12). Numerous problems, different from each other in many important respects, fit into this general characterization. The voluminous literature on the preference aggregation problems has extensively utilized the uniform and abstract framework of the axiomatic social choice theory (basically due to Arrow’s (1951) seminal work) for analysing these essentially different problems.

Keywords: Social Choice; Choice Function; Golden Rule; Social Choice Function; Social Choice Theory (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1987
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-07357-3_8

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