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Social choice theory studies voting rules that govern and describe how individual preferences are aggregated to form a collective preference. It dates from Condorcet's formulation of the voting paradox. Kenneth Arrow's 1951 book Social Choice and Individual Values and Arrow's impossibility theorem in it created the theory in its modern form, which blends and generalizes elements of welfare... Read enhanced Wikipedia article
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    Social choice theory

    Social choice theory studies voting rules that govern and describe how individual preferences are aggregated to form a collective preference. It dates from Condorcet's formulation of the voting paradox.
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    Category:Social choice theory

    Social choice theory Political economy
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    Public choice theory

    The consent takes the form of a compensation principle like Pareto efficiency for making a policy change and unanimity at least no opposition as a point of departure for social choice. ... "Public Choice Theory" at the Concise Encyclopedia of Economics
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    Rational choice theory

    Social choice theory ... Pathologies of Rational Choice Theory: A Critique of Applications in Political Science.
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    Social Choice and Individual Values

    Hence, the paradox of social choice. ... In this respect Arrow's framework has been an instrument for generalizing voting theory and critically evaluating and broadening economic policy and social choice theory.
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    Voting system

    Student's Social Choice by Alex Bogomolny. ... PhD seminar on Choice Theory by Robert Nau.
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    Choice

    See also: rational choice theory, public choice theory, social choice theory
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    Welfare economics

    Social Choice and Individual Values, Yale University Press, New Haven. ... Welfare Economics and Social Choice Theory, 2nd ed. ISBN 0387293671, ISBN 9780387293677 Arrow-serachable chapter previews.
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    List of liberal theorists

    John Hicks (United Kingdom, 1904-1989) is known for his work in macro-economics and social choice theory.
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    Belief revision

    This is similar with what is done in social choice theory, which is the study of how the preferences of a group of agents can be combined in a rational way.

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