Copyright

Martin J. Osborne

Published On

2025-09-12

Page Range

pp. 71–88

Language

  • English

Print Length

18 pages

2. Collective choice with privately-known preferences

For collective choice problems in which each individual's preferences are known only to her, does there exist a mechanism for selecting an alternative that varies reasonably with the individuals' preferences? If every preference profile that is regarded as possible has a Condorcet winner, the answer is positive, but otherwise the answer is generally negative.

Contributors

Martin J. Osborne

(author)
Professor Emeritus of Economics at University of Toronto