Axioms of monotonicity, efficiency and continuity are shown to characterize the relative majority rule when there are only two alternatives. The absolute majority rule and the rel...
Discounted utilitarianism treats generations unequally and leads to seemingly unappealing consequences in some models of economic growth. Instead, this paper presents and applies ...
The yolk, defined by McKelvey as the smallest ball intersecting all median hyperplanes, is a key concept in the Euclidean spatial model of voting. Koehler conjectured that the yo...
Overlapping generations are extracting a natural resource over an infinite future. We examine fair allocation of resource and compensations among generations. Fairness is define...
Distributional analysis is widely used to study social choice in Euclidean models [35, 36, 1, 5, 11, 19, 8, 2, e.g]. This method assumes a continuum of voters distributed accordin...
This paper investigates ‘complete ignorance’ (CI) in the tradition of the CI literature and provides a characterization of possible attitudes toward ignorance. Pessimism, opti...