The incompatibility of individualism and ordinalism

DOI10.1016/0165-4896(82)90004-XzbMath0491.90008OpenAlexW2002257070MaRDI QIDQ1167647

Murray C. Kemp, Yew-Kwang Ng

Publication date: 1982

Published in: Mathematical Social Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/0165-4896(82)90004-x

zbMATH Keywords

individualismformal proofnon-existence of an individualistic social welfare functionordinalism

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Social choice (91B14)

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