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Arrovian

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Etymology

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From Arrow +‎ -ian.

Adjective

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Arrovian (comparative more Arrovian, superlative most Arrovian)

  1. (economics) Of or relating to Kenneth Arrow (1921–2017), American economist.
    • 2002, Donald E. Campbell and Jerry S. Kelly, Impossibility theorems in the arrovian framework, p. 36, in: Kenneth J. Arrow, Amartya K. Sen and Kotaro Suzumura (eds.), Handbook of Social Choice and Welfare (Volume 1), Elsevier 2002
      The chapter proves Arrow's theorem and investigates the possibility of uncovering a satisfactory social choice rule by relaxing the conditions while remaining within the Arrovian framework[.]