Econometrica

Journal Of The Econometric Society

An International Society for the Advancement of Economic
Theory in its Relation to Statistics and Mathematics

Edited by: Guido W. Imbens • Print ISSN: 0012-9682 • Online ISSN: 1468-0262

Econometrica: May, 1974, Volume 42, Issue 3

Power, the Economic Environment, and Social Choice

https://doi.org/0012-9682(197405)42:3<461:PTEEAS>2.0.CO;2-6
p. 461-470

Rubin Saposnik

The economic environment (social output) is treated explicitly as a social choice variable. Individual orderings over the set of environments are derived from maximizing behavior. The influence of each individual on the choice made by society is expressed in terms of a power indice which is itself a function of the prevailing environment. These individual power indices give rise to a power rule which provides a social ordering over the set of environments, with the social choice set under any environment being non-empty. The existence of equilibrium in terms of the power rule is established.


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