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Social Choice Theory: An Introduction

Jerry S. Kelly

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0. What is Social Choice Theory?.- 1. Simple Majority Voting.- 2. The Voting Paradox.- 3. Single-Peakedness.- 4. Chaos.- 5. Other Voting Extensions.- 6. Social Choice Rules.- 7. Arrow's Impossibility Theorem.- 8. Power.- 9. Rights.- 10. Strategy-Proofness.- 11. Counterthreats.- 12. Approval Voting.- 13. Mistakes.- Mathematical Appendix.- Answers and Hints to Selected Exercises.

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Key concepts: Arrow's impossibility theorem, Social choice theory, Voting, Arrow, Mathematical economics, Impossibility, Cardinal voting systems, Condorcet method