Kenneth Arrow’s impossibility theorem stretching to other fields

Public Choice (2018)
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Arrow’s impossibility result not only had a profound influence on welfare economics, but was, as this paper shows, also widely discussed in philosophy of science and in the engineering design literature.

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10.1007/s11127-018-0503-y

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Wulf Gaertner
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