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Geometry and impossibility

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This note presents a simple proof of Arrow's impossibility theorem using Saari's [3, 4] “geometry of voting”.

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  1. School of Management and Economics, Queen's University, Belfast BT7 1NN, U.K. (e-mail: j.perote-pena@qub.ac.uk; a.j.piggins@qub.ac.uk) , , , , , , GB

    Juan Perote-Peña & Ashley Piggins

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  1. Juan Perote-Peña
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Received: March 5, 2001; revised version: August 16, 2001

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Perote-Peña, J., Piggins, A. Geometry and impossibility. Econ Theory 20, 831–836 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1007/s001990100233

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