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Nobel prize-winning economists revisit Kenneth J. Arrow’s groundbreaking work on voting habits and outcomes. Amartya Sen is the Thomas W. Lamont University Professor and Professor of Economics and Philosophy at Harvard University. In 1998, he was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, and in 1999, he was awarded the Bharat Ratna, India’s highest civilian award. He is also a senior fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows, distinguished fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, and a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. His books have been translated into more than thirty languages. Eric Maskin is an Adams University Professor at Harvard University. He received the 2007 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics (with L. Hurwicz and R. Myerson) for laying the foundations of mechanism design theory. He has also made contributions to game theory, contract theory, social choice theory, political economy, and other areas of economics. Acknowledgments Introduction, by Prasanta K. Pattanaik Part 1: The Lectures Opening Remarks, by Joseph E. Stiglitz Arrow and the Impossibility Theorem, by Amartya Sen The Arrow Impossibility Theorem: Where Do We Go From Here?, by Eric Maskin Commentary, by Kenneth J. Arrow Part II: Supplemental Materials The Informational Basis of Social Choice, by Amartya Sen On The Robustness of Majority Rule, by Partha Dasgupta and Eric Maskin The Origins of the Impossibility Theorem, by Kenneth J. Arrow Notes on Contributors
