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

DOI10.1016/j.hm.2018.11.001zbMath1422.91028OpenAlexW2903710323WikidataQ128700054 ScholiaQ128700054MaRDI QIDQ2631822

Jesper Luetzen

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

voting theoryCondorcet paradoxsocial choicewelfare economicsorder relationsArrow's impossibility theoremDuncan BlackKenneth Arrow

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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Cites Work

• The Borda and Condorcet principles: Three medieval applications
• Handbook of mathematical economics. Volume III
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