Arrow's impossibility theorem is a key result in social choice theory showing that no ranked-choice procedure for group decision-making can satisfy the...
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Impossibility theorem could refer to: Proof of impossibility, a negative proof of a theory Arrow's impossibility theorem in welfare economics This disambiguation...
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becomes A. Social choice theory Arrow's impossibility theorem Condorcet paradox Gibbard–Satterthwaite theorem Gibbard's theorem ^ May, Kenneth O. 1952. "A...
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capabilities and functionings approaches, and measures of welfare. Arrow's impossibility theorem is a key result showing that social choice functions based only...
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routes from Arrow's impossibility theorem. Economy portal Arrow's impossibility theorem Condorcet cycle Duggan–Schwartz theorem Gibbard's theorem Ranked voting...
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no-go theorem instead presents a sequence of events that may never occur. Arrow's impossibility theorem Andrea Oldofredi (2018). "No-Go Theorems and the...
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they support a candidate, these methods are not covered by Arrow's impossibility theorem, and their resistance to the spoiler effect becomes a more complex...
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Gibbard's theorem can be proven using Arrow's impossibility theorem.[citation needed] Gibbard's theorem is itself generalized by Gibbard's 1978 theorem and...
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solved. These are also known as proofs of impossibility, negative proofs, or negative results. Impossibility theorems often resolve decades or centuries of...
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From the surname Arrow, it may mean: Kenneth Arrow's impossibility theorem about social choice and voting Arrow information paradox: "its value for the purchaser...
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and Michael Spence. A collection of Arrow's papers is housed at the Rubenstein Library at Duke University. Arrow's monograph Social Choice and Individual...
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Trilemma (section Arrow's impossibility theorem)
on 2010-09-20. Retrieved 2018-07-17. Kleinberg, Jon (2002). An Impossibility Theorem for Clustering (PDF). Advances in Neural Information Processing...
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published before Arrow's impossibility theorem was published in 1950, and thus did not fully consider Arrow's "unrestricted domain" criterion. Arrow, K.J. (August...
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Nash equilibrium (redirect from Nash theorem (in game theory))
Kakutani fixed-point theorem in his 1950 paper to prove existence of equilibria. His 1951 paper used the simpler Brouwer fixed-point theorem for the same purpose...
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Social welfare function (section Harsanyi's theorem)
the social level impossible. This result is now known as Arrow's impossibility theorem. Arrow's theorem shows that it is impossible for an ordinal social...
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theorem was proved by Norman Schofield in 1978, for differentiable preferences. The theorem can be thought of as showing that Arrow's impossibility theorem...
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the median voter. The median voter theorem thus shows that under a realistic model of voter behavior, Arrow's theorem does not apply, and rational choice...
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Liberal paradox (redirect from The Paretian-Liberal Impossibility Theorem)
choice theory, is similar in many respects to Arrow's impossibility theorem and the Gibbard–Satterthwaite theorem. As a mathematical construct, it also has...
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Arrow's impossibility theorem shows that no reasonable (non-random, non-dictatorial) ranked voting system can satisfy IIA. However, Arrow's theorem does...
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Welfare economics (section Fundamental theorems)
achieve it. Arrow's impossibility theorem which is closely related to social choice theory, is sometimes considered a third fundamental theorem of welfare...
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Mark Allen (April 1975). "Strategy-proofness and Arrow's conditions: Existence and correspondence theorems for voting procedures and social welfare functions"...
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arguably identified the key result of Arrow's impossibility theorem, albeit under stronger conditions than required by Arrow: Condorcet cycles create situations...
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including Arrow's impossibility theorem (showing that ranked voting cannot eliminate the spoiler effect) and Gibbard's theorem (showing it is impossible to design...
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the property of ‘independence of irrelevant alternatives’. Arrow's impossibility theorem shows that this property is inconsistent with others with more...
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and the methodology of fixed point theorems is underscored by the awarding of Nobel prizes in 1972 to Kenneth Arrow, in 1983 to Gérard Debreu, and in 1994...
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Monty Hall problem (section Bayes' theorem)
a formal application of Bayes' theorem — among them books by Gill and Henze. Use of the odds form of Bayes' theorem, often called Bayes' rule, makes...
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mathematics) Topkis's theorem (economics) Alchian–Allen theorem (economics) Arrow's impossibility theorem (game theory) Arrow-Lind theorem (welfare economics)...
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line Arrow, representing a morphism, linking objects in category theory Arrow information paradox, on trading information Arrow's impossibility theorem, on...
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decision rule, analog in decision theory Arrow's impossibility theorem Bayesian efficiency Fundamental theorems of welfare economics Deadweight loss Economic...
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agreement theorem and proven by Milgrom shows that, given certain conditions on market efficiency and information, speculative trade is impossible. The concept...
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