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Kenneth Arrow’s impossibility theorem stretching to other fields

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  • Wulf Gaertner

    (University of Osnabrueck
    London School of Economics)

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Arrow’s impossibility result not only had a profound influence on welfare economics, but was, as this paper shows, also widely discussed in philosophy of science and in the engineering design literature.

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  • Wulf Gaertner, 2019. "Kenneth Arrow’s impossibility theorem stretching to other fields," Public Choice, Springer, vol. 179(1), pages 125-131, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:kap:pubcho:v:179:y:2019:i:1:d:10.1007_s11127-018-0503-y
    DOI: 10.1007/s11127-018-0503-y
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