Liberty, Equality, and Impossibility: Some General Results in the Space of ‘Soft’ Preferences

S. Subramanian ()
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Chapter Chapter 4 in Social Values and Social Indicators, 2021, pp 27-45 from Springer

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: Soft binary preference relation; Soft extended binary preference relation; Modified equity; Minimal liberalism; Generalized soft aggregation rule; H-rationalizability of a choice function (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1007/978-981-16-0428-7_4

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