ARROW’S THEOREM

Amartya Sen., “Collective Choice and Social Welfare”, translated by Motoyoshi Shida, Keiso Shobo, 2000. [seems to be required reading on social choice theory (e.g. Rousseau’s). See chapters 3 and 6.2.

Geoffrey Brennan, `The contribution of economics’, in Robert E. Goodin and Philip Pettit ed., A Companion to Contemporary Political Philosophy, Oxford: Blackwell, 1993, 123-156. In his interpretation, what Arrow’s theorem implies is that in order to give a proper meaning to “public interest (e.g., public good),” it is necessary to perform an “interindividual comparison of utility” (p. 136).

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