Social choice theory

Social choice theory studies how measures of individual interests, values, or welfares in theory could be aggregated to reach a collective decision. A non-theoretical example of a collective decision is passing a set of laws under a constitution. Social choice theory dates from Condorcet's formulation of the voting paradox. Kenneth Arrow's 1951 book Social Choice and...
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