Consequences, opportunities, and Arrovian impossibility theorems with consequentialist domains (Q733799): Difference between revisions

The author examines the possibility of Arrovian social choice when alternatives consist of outcomes and opportunity sets from which they are chosen. Consequentialism is a choice attitude towards outcomes and opportunities for choice and prioritizes outcomes rather than opportunities for choice. He first proposes a sufficient condition for a restricted domain on which Arrow's impossibility theorem holds. A domain such that there exists a similarity of choice attitudes within consequentialism satisfies the proposed domain condition. He observes that a diversity of choice attitudes within consequentialism is crucial to resolve an Arrovian impossibility, but this resolution is restricted in plausibility. He re-examines \textit{K. Suzumura} and \textit{Y. Xu's} [Soc. Choice Welfare 22, No. 1, 237--251 (2004; Zbl 1077.91020)] framework by focusing on the properties of a domain in which an extended social welfare function (ESWF) is defined.