In this paper I examine the relationships between social choice theory and consumer theory. First, I argue that they have a common theoretic core defined around agent’s utility maximization in choice situations. Secondly, it is claimed, as a working hypothesis, that there is a specialization relation precisely in the same terms in which this relation is defined by the structuralist view
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