KnowraArrow's impossibility theoremLinked fromLinked fromThe 16 pages that link to Arrow's impossibility theorem, each with the reason it gives.All 16Broader topic 2Related 8Compared with 6Pareto efficiencyRelated: It highlights the limits of aggregating individual preferences into a complete social ranking.Social choice theoryRelated: It establishes a fundamental limit on what preference aggregation can guarantee.Preference relationRelated: It establishes limits on aggregating individual preference relations into a social ranking.Kaldor–Hicks efficiencyRelated: It illustrates the difficulty of constructing collective rankings from individual preferences.Condorcet paradoxRelated: It generalizes the challenge of producing a satisfactory collective ranking from individual preferences.Borda countRelated: Borda avoids some failures only by not meeting every desirable condition.Voting paradoxRelated: It formalizes why plausible social-choice requirements can conflict.Gibbard–Satterthwaite theoremRelated: It is a closely related impossibility result about aggregating unrestricted preferences.