Sen's liberal paradox

Social preference relations become circular and undecidable.

no social system can simultaneously

• be committed to a minimal sense of freedom,

• always result in a type of economic efficiency known as Pareto efficiency, and

• be capable of functioning in any society whatsoever https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal_paradox

http://www.f.waseda.jp/ksuga/pubphil1212.pdf

• Pareto principle

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