“preferences ⊕ institutions ⊕ physical possibilities = outcomes”

⊕ refers unspecified abstract operator.
"The application of laboratory experimental methods to public choice". In C.S. Russell (Ed.), Collective decision making: Applications from public choice theory (1979)

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