Transitive closure, proximity and intransitivities

Economic Theory

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 175-181

  Baigent, Nick ^a   Klamler, Christian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

Distance functions; Transitive closure; Voting paradox

Indexed keywords

EID: 0742323894     PISSN: 09382259     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00199-003-0362-7     Document Type: Conference Paper

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