Abstract
It was Kelly [1971] who first posed the question asking whether or not it is possible to obtain a continuous social preference even when each individual preferences are known to be continuous. Saposnik [1975] provided a partial answer to it by introducing sufficient conditions for a continuous social choice. This paper is an attempt to obtain a much weaker sufficient condition, and also to show that the condition is also necessary.
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Hosomatsu, Y. (1983). A Necessary and Sufficient Condition for a Continuously Rational Social Choice. In: Sato, R., Beckmann, M.J. (eds) Technology, Organization and Economic Structure. Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems, vol 210. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-48327-1_9
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