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Collective action is a means of power, a means by which individuals can more fully realize their individual values.

— Kenneth Arrow The Limits Of Organization (1974)

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Perhaps as important is the relation between the existence of solutions to a competitive equilibrium and the problems of normative or welfare economics.

As is by now well known, attempts to form social judgments by aggregating individual expressed preferences always lead to the possibility of paradox.

The Limits Of Organization (1974)

The aim of achieving an equal distribution of political power requires a restriction on the inequalities of wealth and income.

The purpose of organizations is to exploit the fact that many (virtually all) decisions require the participation of many individuals for their effectiveness.

The Limits Of Organization (1974)

Uncertainty means that we do not have a complete description of the world which we fully believe to be true.

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Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.

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