The Possibility of a Social Welfare Function
Comment
Published in: American Economic Review, v. 57, no. 5, Communications, Dec. 1967, p. 1301-1304
Posted on RAND.org on January 01, 1967
Author comments on vote markets and decision making. No stable outcome normally exists with vote trading; the author points out flaws in James S. Coleman's social welfare function model.
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