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Econometrica: May, 1971, Volume 39, Issue 3

The Continuous Representation of a Social Preference Ordering

https://www.jstor.org/stable/1913268
p. 593-597

J. S. Kelly

It is shown that single-peaked, continuous utility functions do not, in general,aggregate in majority voting to a continuous social utility function. Conditions on individual preference orderings to guarantee a continuous social utility function are presented for a simple case.

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