Social Choice and Individual Values
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Social Choice and Individual Values is a foundational 1951 book by economist Kenneth Arrow that established modern social choice theory and introduced Arrow’s impossibility theorem.
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| Social Choice and Individual Values canonical | 2 |
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| instanceOf |
book
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economics book ⓘ work on social choice theory ⓘ |
| academicDiscipline |
microeconomics
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normative economics ⓘ |
| author | Kenneth Arrow NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| citedBy |
research in collective choice and democracy
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research in social welfare theory ⓘ research in voting theory ⓘ |
| coreResult |
dictatorship is implied if all Arrow axioms hold
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no social welfare function can satisfy a set of seemingly reasonable conditions simultaneously ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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United States
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| field |
decision theory
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economics ⓘ political science ⓘ social choice theory ⓘ welfare economics ⓘ |
| hasEdition | second edition ⓘ |
| hasPart |
analysis of individual preference orderings
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analysis of social welfare orderings ⓘ axioms for social welfare functions ⓘ discussion of voting procedures ⓘ proof of Arrow impossibility theorem ⓘ |
| influenced |
axiomatic welfare economics
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collective decision-making research ⓘ mechanism design theory ⓘ modern social choice theory ⓘ political philosophy discussions of democracy ⓘ public choice theory ⓘ theory of voting ⓘ |
| introducedConcept |
Arrow impossibility theorem
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axiomatic approach to social choice ⓘ social welfare function (in modern formal sense) ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
Arrow impossibility theorem
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collective decision-making ⓘ social choice ⓘ voting rules ⓘ welfare functions ⓘ |
| notableFor |
establishing impossibility results in social choice
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formalization of conditions for rational social choice ⓘ foundational role in Arrow’s Nobel Prize–winning work ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1951 ⓘ |
| publisher | John Wiley & Sons NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| secondEditionPublicationYear | 1963 ⓘ |
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