Social Choice as a Continuous Mapping from IRn→IR: A Group Invariance Approach

Authors

  • Lyle Noakes The University of Western Australia
  • Alex Coram The University of Western Australia

Keywords:

Aggregating preferences, welfare function, group actions.

Abstract

Social choice is studied by employing a group invariance approach in a way that appears not to have been previously been exploited. This simplifies the problem and the proofs and provides some new insights into the foundations of impossibility results

Author Biographies

Lyle Noakes, The University of Western Australia

School of Mathematics and Statistics

Alex Coram, The University of Western Australia

School of Social Sciences

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Published

2014-11-10

How to Cite

Noakes, L., & Coram, A. (2014). Social Choice as a Continuous Mapping from IRn→IR: A Group Invariance Approach. Journal of Reviews on Global Economics, 3, 394–400. Retrieved from http://lifescienceglobalca.com/index.php/jrge/article/view/2484

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