How mathematical impossibility changed welfare economics: a history of Arrow's impossibility theorem

DOI10.1016/J.HM.2018.11.001zbMATH Open1422.91028OpenAlexW2903710323WikidataQ128700054 ScholiaQ128700054MaRDI QIDQ2631822FDOQ2631822

Authors: Jesper Lützen 

Publication date: 16 May 2019

Published in: Historia Mathematica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hm.2018.11.001

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zbMATH Keywords

order relationssocial choiceArrow's impossibility theoremvoting theorywelfare economicsCondorcet paradoxDuncan BlackKenneth Arrow

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Social choice (91B14) History of mathematics in the 20th century (01A60) History of game theory, economics, and finance (91-03) Voting theory (91B12) Welfare economics (91B15) History of ordered structures (06-03)

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