Multi-Profile Intertemporal Social Choice: A Survey

Walter Bossert and Kotaro Suzumura

A chapter in Individual and Collective Choice and Social Welfare, 2015, pp 109-126 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract We provide a brief survey of some literature on intertemporal social choice theory in a multi-profile setting. As is well-known, Arrow’s impossibility result hinges on the assumption that the population is finite. For infinite populations, there exist non-dictatorial social welfare functions satisfying Arrow’s axioms and they can be described by their corresponding collections of decisive coalitions. We review contributions that explore whether this possibility in the infinite-population context allows for a richer class of social welfare functions in an intergenerational model. Different notions of stationarity formulated for individual and for social preferences are examined.

Keywords: Decisiveness; Infinite-population social choice; Intergenerational choice; Multi-profile social choice (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-662-46439-7_7

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