BOSSERT, Walter - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie … - 2006
Consistency, a natural weakening of transitivity introduced in a seminal contribution by Suzumura (1976b), has turned … is shown that the conclusion of the welfarism theorem remains true if transitivity is replaced by consistency and that an … impossibility result in variable-population social-choice theory turns into a possibility if transitivity is weakened to consistency. …