The General Irrelevance of the General Impossibility Theorem

1 May 1967

journal article
Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in The Quarterly Journal of Economics

Vol. 81 (2) , 256-270
https://doi.org/10.2307/1879585

Abstract

Aggregation of preferences, 256. — The paradox of voting and its significance, 257. — Voting in a simple model, 258. — Some complications, 260. — Unimportance of the paradox, 263. — Voting in a more realistic model, 264. — Conclusion, 270.

Keywords

GENERAL IRRELEVANCE
THEOREM AGGREGATION
IMPOSSIBILITY THEOREM
GENERAL IMPOSSIBILITY
UNIMPORTANCE
REALISTIC MODEL
SIMPLE MODEL