The Negation of Impossibility

Lawrence, John

doi:10.31124/advance.11473305.v4

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The Negation of Impossibility

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posted on 2021-08-27, 23:17 authored by John LawrenceJohn Lawrence

The impossibility theorems of Arrow and Gibbard-Satterthwaite have been thought to rule out economic democracy and welfare economics. This paper demonstrates an information processing system which accords with the premises of these authors, and, consequently, proves their conclusions of impossibility to be untrue except as mathematical tautologies.

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j.c.lawrence@cox.net

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United States

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UCSD

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