Foundations and Implications of Rights

To begin with, recall Amartya Sen’s well-known theorem establishing the impossibility of a social decision function which can simultaneously satisfy the conditions of unrestricted domain, the weak Pareto condition, and minimal liberalism (Sen, 1970). The impact of this theorem ‘on the social choice literature [is] fully comparable to that of Arrow’s (1950) impossibility theorem. The ensuing debate has confirmed for Sen a well-earned reputation as the leading contemporary scholar of social choice worldwide’ (Rowley, 1993, p. 67). These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.