Rawls's maximin rule and Arrow's impossibility theorem

DOI10.1016/J.ECONLET.2016.05.026MaRDI QIDQ1670174zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Kui Ou-Yang

Publication date 5 September 2018

Published in Economics Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2016.05.026

zbMATH Keywords

Arrow's impossibility theoremRawlsianismsocial welfare functional

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Social choice (91B14)

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