Economics (7th Edition) (What's New in Economics)
Economics (7th Edition) (What's New in Economics)
7th Edition
ISBN: 9780134738321
Author: R. Glenn Hubbard, Anthony Patrick O'Brien
Publisher: PEARSON
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Chapter 18, Problem 18.1.2RQ
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Difference between the voting paradox and the arrow impossibility theorem.

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