Chinese Journal of Nature ›› 2017, Vol. 39 ›› Issue (6): 463-466.

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Arrow’s impossibility theorem and the problem of non-contradictory social choice

HU Yuda   

  1. School of Mathematical Sciences, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai 200240, China
  • Received:2017-10-15 Revised:2017-11-15 Online:2017-12-25 Published:2017-12-26

Abstract:

This paper is written in remembrance of K. J. Arrow, Nobel Laureate in Economics of 1972, who died on the 21st of February, 2017 for his important contribution to the theory of social choice, particularly his eponymous impossibility theorem.

Key words: social choice, Arrow’s impossibility theorem, social welfare function, social decision function, social satisfaction function