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Antonio Quesada
 
''From social choice functions to dictatorial social welfare functions''
( 2002, Vol. 4 No.16 )
 
 
A procedure to construct a social welfare function from a social choice function is suggested and it is shown that the dictatorial are the only unanimous social welfare functions that can be reconstructed from a social choice function that does not change the social choice when a defeated alternative is moved to the last position in all the individual preferences.
 
 
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JEL: D7 - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making: General
 
Manuscript Received : Jul 19 2002 Manuscript Accepted : Jul 19 2002

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