Ep 33 Ch 13 "Choices" Part 1. Some readings and remarks.
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The Impossibility of Social Choice
The problem is much less parochial than it looks. For instance, rounding areas are proportionally smaller with a larger legislature. So why don't they just make the legislature very big, say 10,000 members? One reason is that such a legislature would have to organise itself internally to make any decisions. Arrow's theorem appears to deny the very existence of social choice. It strikes at the principle of representative government and apportionment in particular.
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