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Reasonable elections don’t exist!

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2016

John Baylis
John Baylis*
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Department of Mathematics, Statistics and Operational Research, Trent Polytechnic, Clifton, Nottingham NG11 8NS.
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In 1972 Kenneth Arrow was awarded the Nobel prize for economics. Much of his work was in the theory and philosophy of decision making, in particular the theory of voting, and in this field “Arrow’s theorem” is a truly remarkable result. It is a genuine application to the social sciences of some elementary mathematics and as such I feel that it is a pity that it is not in the repertoire of more teachers. Hence this article.

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The Mathematical Gazette , Volume 69 , Issue 448 , June 1985, pp. 95 - 103
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Copyright © Mathematical Association 1985

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