Multi-Profile Intertemporal Social Choice

Walter Bossert and Kotaro Suzumura

Cahiers de recherche from Universite de Montreal, Departement de sciences economiques

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 nondictatorial 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: Infinite-population social choice; multi-profile social choice; decisiveness; intergenerational choice. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D71 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 20 pages
Date: 2012
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