G.A. Hazelrigg attempted to apply it to optimal engineering design.  
G.A. Hazelrigg attempted to apply it to optimal engineering design.  Found in the 1963 publication Social Choice and Individual Values, it centers largely on the concepts of optimization and utility.  It states that rankings of individual preferences will never necessarily correspond to those of societal preferences when there are more than two individuals and alternative choices.  FTP, name this economic theorem, which won a share of the 1972 Nobel in Economics for Kenneth Arrow.
G.A. Hazelrigg attempted to apply it to optimal engineering design.  
Arrow's Impossibility Theorem (prompt on "Arrow's Theorem")