The Arrow Impossibility Theorem /
Kenneth Arrow's pathbreaking?impossibility theorem" was a watershed in the history of welfare economics, voting theory, and collective choice, demonstrating that there is no voting rule that satisfies the four desirable axioms of decisiveness, consensus, nondictatorship, and independence....
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
2014.
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| Series: | Kenneth J. Arrow lecture series (New York, N.Y.)
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction, by Prasanta K. Pattanaik; Part 1: The Lectures ; Opening Remarks, by Joseph E. Stiglitz; Arrow and the Impossibility Theorem, by Amartya Sen; The Arrow Impossibility Theorem: Where Do We Go From Here?, by Eric Maskin; Commentary, by Kenneth J. Arrow; Part II: Supplemental Materials ; The Informational Basis of Social Choice, by Amartya Sen; On The Robustness of Majority Rule, by Partha Dasgupta and Eric Maskin; The Origins of the Impossibility Theorem, by Kenneth J. Arrow; Notes on Contributors.