From: Steve Eppley [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2004 06:58:22 -0800
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I consider Arrow's axioms justifiable. In the decades leading up to
Arrow's theorem, economists and social scientists had struggled in
vain to find a good way to compare different individuals' utility
differences
Ken,
--- Ken Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit :
Arrow's axioms could well be justifiable, but his proof doesn't provide
the justification. There may be good reasons why CR should be rejected
as a viable election method, but Arrow's premises don't elucidate those
reasons because if the
From: Steve Eppley
Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2004 06:58:22 -0800
Subject: Arrow's axioms (was Re: [EM] Re: [Fwd: Election-methods digest,
Vol 1 #525 - 9 msgs])
By Arrow's
time, they'd learned that, lacking mind-reading
technologies, they couldn't elicit cardinal utilities that
could be compared
