General classification of social choice situations
An exhaustive and disjoint decomposition of social choice situations is derived in ageneral set theoretical framework using the new tools of the Lifted Pareto relation on thepower set of social states representing a pre-choice comparison of choice option sets.
Themain result is the classification of social choice situations which include three types ofsocial choice problems.
First, we usually observe the common incompleteness of thePareto relation. Second, a kind of non-compactness problem of a choice set of socialstates can be generated. Finally, both can be combined.
The first problem root can beregarded as natural everyday dilemma of social choice theory whereas the second mayprobably be much more due to modeling technique implications. The distinction isenabled at a very general set theoretical level.
Hence, the derived classification of socialchoice situations is applicable on almost every relevant economic model.
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2004
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Authors: | Becker, Ralf E. |
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Universität Potsdam / Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät. Wirtschaftswissenschaften / Extern. Extern |
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