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

DOI10.1016/J.HM.2018.11.001MaRDI QIDQ2631822zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

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

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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