The assignment required each student to create a human figure but left the subject of the sculpture to their collective choice.
To answer the questions, Arrow proposes removing the distinction between voting and markets in favor of a more general category of collective social choice.
It is our form of government that provides the vehicle for collective choice via elected legislators and the judicial system.
Markets are the arena where the choices of individual economic agents determine allocation and distribution; government is the prime embodiment of collective choice.
This school attempts to explain collective choices by rational actors.
One use of a social welfare function is to represent prospective patterns of collective choice as to alternative social states.
Future cultural evolution may result in suppression of self-preservation animal instinct, making possible a conscious collective choice for extinction.
They remind us that we have collective choices - and personal responsibilities for helping make and execute such choices.
Gives an axiomatic characterization and justification of the Schwartz set as a possible standard for optimal, rational collective choice.
A growth in participatory democracy is therefore desirable, emphasising the needs of collective choice and government.