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exposita note : Geometry and impossibility

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Juan Perote-Peña () (School of Management and Economics, Queen's University, Belfast BT7 1NN, U.K.)
Ashley Piggins () (School of Management and Economics, Queen's University, Belfast BT7 1NN, U.K.)

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This note presents a simple proof of Arrow's impossibility theorem using Saari's [3, 4] "geometry of voting".

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Article provided by Springer in its journal Economic Theory.

Volume (Year): 20 (2002)
Issue (Month): 4 ()
Pages: 831-836
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Note: Received: March 5, 2001; revised version: August 16, 2001
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Keywords: Arrow's theorem; Voting geometry; Representation triangle.;

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