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Paper results for keyword: Irrelevant alternative The possibility of group choice: pairwise comparisons and merging functions
Thomas Saaty, Luis VargasJournal: Social Choice and WelfarePreferences in Arrow’s conditions are ordinal. Here we show that when intensity of preference represented by reciprocal pairwise comparisons is considered, it is always possible to construct an Arrowian social welfare function using a two-stage social choice process. In stage 1, the individual pa...
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The possibility of group choice: pairwise comparisons and merging functions
Thomas Saaty, Luis VargasJournal: Social Choice and WelfarePreferences in Arrow’s conditions are ordinal. Here we show that when intensity of preference represented by reciprocal pairwise comparisons is considered, it is always possible to construct an Arrowian social welfare function using a two-stage social choice process. In stage 1, the individual pa...
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