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Social choice theory is the study of theoretical and practical methods to aggregate or combine individual preferences into a collective social welfare function. The field generally assumes that individuals have preferences , and it follows that they can be modeled using utility functions , by the VNM theorem .
Kenneth Arrow's monograph Social Choice and Individual Values (1951, 2nd ed., 1963, 3rd ed., 2012) and a theorem within it created modern social choice theory, a rigorous melding of social ethics and voting theory with an economic flavor.
Arrow's impossibility theorem is a key result on social welfare functions, showing an important difference between social and consumer choice: whereas it is possible to construct a rational (non-self-contradictory) decision procedure for consumers based only on ordinal preferences, it is impossible to do the same in the social choice setting ...
Choice theory may refer to: Rational choice theory, the mainstream choice theory in economics, and the "heart" of microeconomics non-standard theories are in their infancy and mostly the subject of behavioral economics; Social choice theory, a conglomerate of models and results concerning the aggregation of individual choices into collective ...
Arrow's theorem assumes as background that any non-degenerate social choice rule will satisfy: [15]. Unrestricted domain – the social choice function is a total function over the domain of all possible orderings of outcomes, not just a partial function.
Computational social choice is a field at the intersection of social choice theory, theoretical computer science, and the analysis of multi-agent systems. [1] It consists of the analysis of problems arising from the aggregation of preferences of a group of agents from a computational perspective.
In social choice theory, unrestricted domain, or universality, is a property of social welfare functions in which all preferences of all voters (but no other considerations) are allowed. Intuitively, unrestricted domain is a common requirement for social choice functions, and is a condition for Arrow's impossibility theorem.
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