Amartya Sen

Prize Lecture

Lecture to the memory of Alfred Nobel, December 8, 1998

The Possibility of Social Choice

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From Nobel Lectures, Economics 1996-2000, Editor Torsten Persson, World Scientific Publishing Co., Singapore, 2003

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