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Arrow's Impossibility Theorem

Arrow's Impossibility Theorem is a foundational result in social choice theory stating that no voting system can simultaneously satisfy unrestricted domain, non-dictatorship, Pareto efficiency, and independence of irrelevant alternatives when aggregating individual preferences into collective preferences across three or more alternatives.

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Arrow's TheoremArrow’s Impossibility TheoremGeneral Possibility Theorem

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Strategy-proofness and Arrow's conditions: Existence and correspondence theorems for voting procedures and social welfare functions

Mark A. Satterthwaite · Journal of Economic Theory · 1975 · 2.9K citations

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Public Choice III

Dennis C. Mueller · Cambridge University Press eBooks · 2003 · 916 citations

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The Possibility of Social Choice

Amartya Sen · American Economic Review · 1999 · 757 citations

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Social Choice Theory: A Re-Examination

Amartya Sen · Econometrica · 1977 · 684 citations

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Aggregating Sets of Judgments: An Impossibility Result

Christian List, Philip Pettit · Economics and Philosophy · 2002 · 629 citations · Full text

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  1. DG
    Donald G. Saari

    Northwestern University, United States

    4 publications · 183 citations

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    Christian List

    London School of Economics and Political Science, United Kingdom

    4 publications · 1.4K citations

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  3. PC
    Peter C. Fishburn

    AT&T (United States), United States

    3 publications · 251 citations

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  4. JA
    John A. Weymark

    Vanderbilt University, United States

    3 publications · 175 citations

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  5. ZR
    Zvi Ritz

    University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, United States

    3 publications · 98 citations

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  1. Columbia University

    New York, United States

    4 h-index

    4 publications

    711 citations

  2. University of Michigan

    Ann Arbor, United States

    4 h-index

    4 publications

    132 citations

  3. Northwestern University

    Evanston, United States

    4 h-index

    4 publications

    3K citations

  4. University of British Columbia

    Vancouver, Canada

    3 h-index

    3 publications

    144 citations

  5. Decision Sciences (United States)

    Fort Walton Beach, United States

    3 h-index

    3 publications

    2.9K citations

  6. Hebrew University of Jerusalem

    Jerusalem, Israel

    3 h-index

    3 publications

    163 citations

  7. Stanford University

    Stanford, United States

    3 h-index

    4 publications

    153 citations

  8. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

    Urbana, United States

    3 h-index

    3 publications

    98 citations

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  1. Social Choice and Welfare

    11 publications · 278 citations

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  2. Journal of Economic Theory

    JET · 10 publications · 3.7K citations

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  3. Journal of Mathematical Economics

    8 publications · 372 citations

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  4. SSRN Electronic Journal

    Repository · 7 publications · 132 citations

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  5. Public Choice

    7 publications · 274 citations

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