As the Nobel Prize-winner Kenneth Arrow showed in his book, Social Choice and Individual Values, no system of combining individual preferences can lead to a rational decision method.

• 正如诺贝尔奖金获得者肯尼思阿罗在他的著作《社会选择和个人价值》一书中所说的那样，没有一种体制能把各自的爱好结合起来并由此制定一个明智的决议方法。