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Quasi-transitivity, Rational Choice and Collective Decisions

Amartya Sen
- 01 Jul 1969 - 
- Vol. 36, Iss: 3, pp 381-393
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This article is published in The Review of Economic Studies.The article was published on 1969-07-01. It has received 299 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Ecological rationality & Rational expectations.

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

TL;DR: In this paper, the strategy-proofness condition for voting procedures corresponds to Arrow's rationality, independence of irrelevant alternatives, nonnegative response, and citizens' sovereignty conditions for social welfare functions.
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The Impossibility of a Paretian Liberal

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present an impossibility result that seems to have some disturbing consequences for principles of social choice, and formalize this concept of individual liberty in an extremely weak form and examine its consequences.
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Choice Functions and Revealed Preference

TL;DR: In this paper, the axiomatic structure of revealed preference theory has been studied and the rationale of restricting the domain of choice functions and that of rationality conditions is critically examined, and it is shown that such a restriction makes the results unusable for other types of choices, e.g., of government bureaucracies, voters, and consumers in an imperfect market.
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Group preference aggregation methods employed in AHP: An evaluation and an intrinsic process for deriving members' weightages

TL;DR: In this article, a simple and intuitively appealing eigenvector based method was proposed to intrinsically determine the weightages for group members using their own subjective opinions, which is the most commonly used method for combining individual opinions to form a group opinion.
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Handbook of Social Choice and Welfare

TL;DR: The origin of social choice theory can be traced back all the way to antiquity as discussed by the authors, and there are numerous examples in classic writings on the use and usefulness of alternative methods of collective decision-making.
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Social Choice and Individual Values

TL;DR: Saari as mentioned in this paper introduced Arrow's Theorem and founded the field of social choice theory in economics and political science, and introduced a new foreword by Nobel laureate Eric Maskin, introducing Arrow's seminal book to a new generation of students and researchers.
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Foundations of Economic Analysis

TL;DR: Recent statistical techniques, including nonlinear programming, have been added to a basic survey of equilibrium systems, comparative statistics, consumer behavior theory, and cost and production theory as discussed by the authors, and they have been used in a variety of applications.
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Social Choice and Individual Values.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a destination search and find the appropriate manuals for their products, providing you with many Social Choice And Individual Values. You can find the manual you are interested in in printed form or even consider it online.
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The theory of committees and elections

Duncan Black
TL;DR: In this paper, Dodgson's Third Pamphlet 'A Method...' (1876) was used to discuss the Elasticity of Committee Decisions with an Altering Size of Majority.
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Rational Selection of Decision Functions

Herman Chernoff
- 01 Oct 1954 -