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Reasonable elections don’t exist!
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 August 2016
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In 1972 Kenneth Arrow was awarded the Nobel prize for economics. Much of his work was in the theory and philosophy of decision making, in particular the theory of voting, and in this field “Arrow’s theorem” is a truly remarkable result. It is a genuine application to the social sciences of some elementary mathematics and as such I feel that it is a pity that it is not in the repertoire of more teachers. Hence this article.
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