Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics

The Theorems of Arrow and Harsanyi:
Fifty Years Later

October 4–5, 2002

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 4th

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 (with David Schmeidler), "Between Liberalism and Democracy"

11:30–12:3

Uzi Segal (with David Heyd), "Democratically Elected Aristocracies"
12:30–2:00 Lunch

2:00–3:00

Rakesh Vohra (with Jay Sethuraman and Teo Chung Piaw), "Integer Programming and Arrovian Social Welfare Functions"
3:30–4:30 Christian List (with Philip Pettit), "Aggregating Sets of Judgments: An Impossibility Result"
4:30–5:30 Edi Karni (with Zvi Safra), "Moral Sentiments and Social Justice: Affirmative Action in University Admissions"
6:00 Dinner

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 5th

8:00–9:00 Continental Breakfast
9:00–10:00 Jean-François Mertens (with Amrita Dhillon), "Relative Utilitarianism"
10:30–11:30 David Schmeidler (with Itzhak Gilboa and Dov Samet), "Utilitarian Aggregation of Beliefs and Tastes"
11:30–12:30 Klaus Nehring, "Utilitarian Cooperation under Incomplete Information"
12:30–2:00 Lunch
2:00–3:00 Simon Grant (with Atsushi Kajii and Ben Polak), "Accidents of Birth, Life Chances and the Impartial Observer"
3:30–4:30 William Thomson, "Consistent Rules for the Adjudication of Conflicting Claims"
4:30–5:30 Open Discussion
6:00 Dinner