As is by now well known, attempts to form social judgments by aggregating individual expressed preferences always lead to the possibility of paradox. (Kenneth Arrow)

As is by now well known, attempts to form social judgments by aggregating individual expressed preferences always lead to the possibility of paradox.

Kenneth Arrow

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