Lecture by Maurice Salles "Independence of irrelevant alternatives: Arrow, Nash and others"

Приглашаем студентов и преподавателей факультета информатики, математики и компьютерных наук на открытую лекцию почетного гостя XIX Апрельской конференции НИУ ВШЭ, профессора Салля (University of Caen, Франция) на тему "Independence of irrelevant alternatives: Arrow, Nash and others". Лекция будет связана с коллективным выбором (public choice).

Когда: 9 апреля в 12.40

Где: НИУ ВШЭ - Нижний Новгород, ул. Большая Печерская, 25/12, ауд. 414

Abstract

The notion of independence of irrelevant alternatives pops up in Arrow's works on social welfare functions at the beginning of the 1950s. At about the same time in his bargaining paper introduced a condition which has been called by various people, including Harold Kuhn, independence of irrelevant alternatives. This expression was also an important property of choice functions and it is generally, in this case, associated with John Nash’s name. In each of these two contexts, the notion has been extensively studied. Obviously, the two notions are mathematical objects of a different nature, although there are some links between the two from an intuitive perspective. The purpose of this paper is to describe the history of the notions and to study whether they can be related from a mathematical perspective.

Speaker

Maurice Salles is recognized as world wide expert in social choice and welfare theory. He is Emeritus professor of University of Caen, France. The main topics of his research are: public choice theory, game theory and decision theory, theory of economic inequality, political theory and others. His was the founder and Editor in Chief of the Journal “Social Choice and Welfare”, Editor in Chief of the Springer series on Choice and Welfare, member of Editorial Board of “Economie publique: edutes et recherché”. He is a honorary guest of the XIX HSE April conference on economic and social development (Moscow, April 10-13, 2018).