SOCIAL CHOICE
AND INDIVIDUAL VALUES

by
KENNETH J. ARROW
John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York
Chapman & Hall, Limited, London
1951
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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Chapter  Page 
Preliminary pages
I.  Introduction
II.  The Nature of Preference and Choice
III.  The Social Welfare Function 22 
IV.  The Compensation Principle 34 
V.  The General Possibility Theorem for Social Welfare Functions 46 
VI.  The Individualistic Assumptions 61 
VII.  Similarity as the Basis of Social Welfare Judgments 74 
References 93 
Index 97