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The bizarre Arrow’s Impossibility Theorem, or Arrow’s Paradox, shows a counterintuitive relationship between fair voting procedures and dictatorships. Start your free trial with Squarespace at http://squarespace.com/infiniteseries and enter offer code “infinite” to get 10% off your first purchase.

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Networks, Crowds and Markets:: https://www.cs.cornell.edu/home/klein...
Original Paper by Kenneth Arrow:: https://web.archive.org/web/201107200...

Different voting systems can produce radically different election results, so it’s important to ensure the voting system we’re using has certain properties - that it fairly represents the opinions of the electorates. The impressively counterintuitive Arrow’s Impossibility Theorem demonstrates that this is much harder than you might think.

Thanks: Ben Houston-Edwards and Iian Smythe

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