Abstract - Social Choice as a Continuous Mapping from IRn→IR : A Group Invariance Approach

Journal of Reviews on Global Economics

Social Choice as a Continuous Mapping from IRnIR : A Group Invariance Approach
Pages 394-400
Lyle Noakes and Alex Coram

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.6000/1929-7092.2014.03.30

Published: 10 November 2014

Open Access 


Abstract: Social choice is studied by employing a group invariance approach in a way that appears not to have been previously been exploited. This simplifies the problem and the proofs and provides some new insights into the foundations of impossibility results.

Keywords: Aggregating preferences, welfare function, group actions.
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