Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics

The Theorems of Arrow and Harsanyi: Fifty Years Later

Friday–Saturday, October 4–5, 2002

FRIDAY 8:00–9:00 Continental Breakfast
9:00–10:00 John Geanakoplos, "Three Brief Proofs of Arrow’s Impossibility Theorem"
10:30–11:30 Dov Samet, "Between Liberalism and Democracy" (with David Schmeidler)
11:30–12:30 Uzi Segal, "Democratically Elected Aristocracies" (with David Heyd)
12:30–2:00 Lunch
2:00–3:00 Rakesh Vohra, "Integer Programming and Arrovian Social Welfare Functions" (with Jay Sethuraman and Teo Chung Piaw)
3:30–4:30 Christian List, "Aggregating Sets of Judgments: An Impossibility Result" (with Philip Pettit)
4:30–5:30 Edi Karni, "Moral Sentiments and Social Justice: Affirmative Action in University Admissions" (with Zvi Safra)
6:00 Dinner
SATURDAY 8:00–9:00 Continental Breakfast
9:00–10:00 Jean-François Mertens, "Relative Utilitarianism" (with Amrita Dhillon)
10:30–11:30 David Schmeidler, "Utilitarian Aggregation of Beliefs and Tastes" (with Itzhak Gilboa and Dov Samet)
11:30–12:30 Klaus Nehring, "Utilitarian Cooperation under Incomplete Information"
12:30–2:00 Lunch
2:00–3:00 Simon Grant, "Accidents of Birth, Life Chances and the Impartial Observer" (with Atsushi Kajii and Ben Polak)
3:30–4:30 William Thomson, "Consistent Rules for the Adjudication of Conflicting Claims"
4:30–5:30 Open Discussion
6:00 Dinner