Subject: Re: [HM] Topics in the history of Social Choice
From: Bernd Buldt (Bernd.Buldt@uni-konstanz.de)
Date: Mon Jan 03 2000 - 07:29:19 EST
dear HM-ers,
in digest #287 thomas bartlow gave, in response to an inquiry of
moshe machover, some of the details of arrow's finding of his
impossibility theorem. once, when i studied it, i either found or
read, that there is a certain analogy of arrow's theorem with a
theorem of von neumann and morgenstern in game theory, namely, that
dominance in many-person-games is not transitive (cf. von
neumann/morgenstern 1943, §4.4). has anybody on the list a more
expert view on this?
NB: arrow's 1950-paper is also reprinted in his: collected papers I
(Cambridge/MA 1983), 1-29.
regards, bb
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