SOCIAL CHOICE AND JUST INSTITUTIONS: NEW PERSPECTIVES.

It has become accepted that social choice is impossible in the absence of interpersonal comparisons of well-being. This view is challenged here. Arrow obtained an impossibility theorem only by making unreasonable demands on social choice functions. With reasonable requirements, one can get very attr...

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Published in:	Economics & Philosophy Vol. 23; no. 1; pp. 15 - 44
Main Author:	FLEURBAEY, MARC
Format:	Article
Published:	Cambridge University Press Mar2007
Subjects:	Social choice Well-being Fairness Justice Equality Welfare economics Comparative studies
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