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Social choice with analytic preferences

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  • Michel Le Breton

    () (Université de la Méditérranée, Faculté des Sciences Economiques, 14, Avenue Jules Ferry, 13621, Aix en Provence, France)

  • John A. Weymark

    () (Department of Economics, Box 1819, Station B, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37235, USA)

Abstract

Arrow's axioms for social welfare functions are shown to be inconsistent when the set of alternatives is the nonnegative orthant in a multidimensional Euclidean space and preferences are assumed to be either the set of analytic classical economic preferences or the set of Euclidean spatial preferences. When either of these preference domains is combined with an agenda domain consisting of compact sets with nonempty interiors, strengthened versions of the Arrovian social choice correspondence axioms are shown to be consistent. To help establish the economic possibility theorem, an ordinal version of the Analytic Continuation Principle is developed.

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Article provided by Springer in its journal Social Choice and Welfare.

Volume (Year): 19 (2002)
Issue (Month): 3 ()
Pages: 637-657

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Handle: RePEc:spr:sochwe:v:19:y:2002:i:3:p:637-657

Note: Received: 4 July 2000/Accepted: 2 April 2001
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Cited by:
  1. Michel Le Breton & John A. Weymark, 2002. "Arrovian Social Choice Theory on Economic Domains," Vanderbilt University Department of Economics Working Papers 0206, Vanderbilt University Department of Economics, revised Sep 2003.
  2. Ehlers, Lars & Storcken, Ton, 2007. "Oligarchies in Spatial Environments," Research Memoranda 042, Maastricht : METEOR, Maastricht Research School of Economics of Technology and Organization.
  3. BOSSERT, Walter & WEYMARK, J.A., 2006. "Social Choice: Recent Developments," Cahiers de recherche 2006-01, Universite de Montreal, Departement de sciences economiques.
  4. EHLERS, Lars & STORCKEN, Ton, 2002. "Arrow's Theorem in Spatial Environments," Cahiers de recherche 2002-03, Universite de Montreal, Departement de sciences economiques.

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