Arrow on domain conditions: a fruitful road to travel

Recognition Program

Authors: Salvador Barberà, Dolors Berga and Bernardo Moreno

Social Choice and Welfare, Vol. 54, No 2-3, 237-258, March, 2020

We stress the importance that Arrow attached to studying the role of domain conditions in determining the validity of his impossibility theorem, a subject to which he devoted two chapters of Social Choice and Individual Values. Then we partially survey recent results about the role of domain conditions on the possibility to design satisfactory aggregation rules and social choice functions, as a proof of the continued vitality of this subject, that he pioneered, as he did with so many others

This paper originally appeared as Barcelona School of Economics Working Paper 1095
This paper is acknowledged by the Barcelona School of Economics Recognition Program