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This chapter reviews the SWFL approach to social choice. It does not attempt to be a complete and systematic survey of existing results, but to give a critical assesment of the main axioms and their role in filtering the ethically relevant information, in particular the measurability and...
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This article surveys the literature that investigates the consistency of Arrow's social choice axioms when his unrestricted domain assumptions are replaced by domain conditions that incorporate the restrictions on agendas and preferences encountered in economic environments. Both social welfare...
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A competitive market mechanism is a prominent example of a nonbinary social choice rule, typically defined for a special class of economic environments in which each social state is an economic allocation of private goods, and individuals’ preferences concern only their own personal...
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, both in a static and in an intertemporal framework. Section 5 deals with the special case of utilitarianism. We review some … welfarism theorem to a variable-population framework and provide a characterization of critical-level generalized utilitarianism …
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We investigate how individuals think groups should aggregate members' ordinal preferences - that is, how they interpret "the will of the people." In an experiment, we elicit revealed attitudes toward ordinal preference aggregation and classify subjects according to the rules they apparently...
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Fuzzy set theory has been explicitly introduced to deal with vagueness and ambiguity. One can also use probability … theory or techniques borrowed from philosophical logic. In this chapter, we consider fuzzy preferences and we survey the … literature on aggregation of fuzzy preferences. We restrict ourselves to “pure aggregation” theory and, accordingly, do not cover …
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