General classification of social choice situations
- An exhaustive and disjoint decomposition of social choice situations is derived in a general set theoretical framework using the new tools of the Lifted Pareto relation on the power set of social states representing a pre-choice comparison of choice option sets. The main result is the classification of social choice situations which include three types of social choice problems. First, we usually observe the common incompleteness of the Pareto relation. Second, a kind of non-compactness problem of a choice set of social states can be generated. Finally, both can be combined. The first problem root can be regarded as natural everyday dilemma of social choice theory whereas the second may probably be much more due to modeling technique implications. The distinction is enabled at a very general set theoretical level. Hence, the derived classification of social choice situations is applicable on almost every relevant economic model.
Author details: | Ralf E. Becker |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-9012 |
ISSN: | 0948-7549 |
ISSN: | 1864-1431 |
Title of parent work (German): | Finanzwissenschaftliche Diskussionsbeiträge |
Publication series (Volume number): | Finanzwissenschaftliche Diskussionsbeiträge (46) |
Publication type: | Working Paper |
Language: | English |
Publication year: | 2004 |
Publishing institution: | Universität Potsdam |
Release date: | 2006/09/20 |
Issue: | 46 |
RVK - Regensburg classification: | QL 000 |
RVK - Regensburg classification: | QL 200 |
Organizational units: | Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Wirtschaftswissenschaften |
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DDC classification: | 3 Sozialwissenschaften / 33 Wirtschaft / 330 Wirtschaft |
License (German): | Keine öffentliche Lizenz: Unter Urheberrechtsschutz |