To the second question, the answer is yes.
To the first, I'm looking it up. It was an aside.
At 02:38 10/05/05, you wrote:
On 5/9/05, Robert Scott Gassler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Are you referring to the Arrow impossibility theorem? Samuelson says that > the theorem does not refer to a social-welfare function but to a voting > rule. If you go back to the original Bergson article (written under the > pseudonym Burke), you find the social welfare function formulated in a way > that makes it virtually impossible to refute.
Where does Samuelson say so? Do you mean Bergson's "Reformulation" article, QJE, 1938?
Best,
Julio
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