Interpersonal Comparability and Social Choice Theory
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Publication:3870624
DOI10.2307/2297002zbMath0432.90009OpenAlexW1994075200MaRDI QIDQ3870624
Publication date: 1980
Published in: The Review of Economic Studies (Search for Journal in Brave)
Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2307/2297002
cooperative gamessocial choiceArrow's impossibility theoreminterpersonal comparabilitymeasurability assumptionsrelaxation of conditionsreal-valued representationscomparability assumptions
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