Arrow’s Impossibility Theorem Exposes a Big Problem with Democracy

11/02/2020 Robert P. Murphy

Kenneth Arrow showed in 1951 that the entire project of social choice theory rested on quicksand.

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Original Article: “Arrow’s Impossibility Theorem Exposes a Big Problem with Democracy“.

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