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Erschienen in: Social Choice and Welfare 2-3/2005

01.12.2005 | Original Paper

The history of social choice in Russia and the Soviet Union

verfasst von: Fuad Aleskerov

Erschienen in: Social Choice and Welfare | Ausgabe 2-3/2005

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In this conference we celebrate the 50th anniversary of the publication of “Social Choice and Individual Values” by Kenneth Arrow [14]. Fyodor Dostoevski once said that the literature of the second half of the 19th century grew out of Nikolai Gogol's short novel, “An Overcoat.” To paraphrase Dostoevski, we can say that the theory of social choice after 1951 grew out of “Social Choice and Individual Values.” …

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Fußnoten
1
It is worth noting that this happened despite the incredible privileges given to members of the commission. E.g., a member could not be sentenced to death whatever the crime.
 
2
This democratic period in Russia did not last long–parliament was dismissed in 1908.
 
3
These were the districts in which less than five members of the Constituent Assembly were to be elected.
 
4
Perhaps the only exception is the work of Ostrogorski, where can be found the Ostrogorski paradox (see, e.g., [43]). Ostrogorski worked in Russia’s Ministry of Justice for many years, then left for Paris where he attended the School of Political Studies until 1885, after which he lived in Great Britain and the USA. On returning to Russia in 1906, he was elected to the Parliament as the member of Constitutional Democrats Party. Some scientists, however, would classify his work as political theory rather than social choice theory.
 
5
In [23], this representation is called ‘decisive structure.’
 
6
In the same period, Russian scientists produced many papers on the analysis and axiomatic characterisation of solutions in game theory, in particular bargaining problems (see, e.g., [62]). However, these belong rather to the history of game theory, and are not discussed here.
 
7
Similar reasoning, with lower contour sets, was first presented by Maskin [33], using his Monotonicity condition.
 
8
Cybernetics in Russia was another case. In 1949, this was also called a bourgeois science and many scientists, including for example Kolmogorov, ended their activities in the field. By way of comparison with the above account of Arrow's Theorem, I give just a short quotation [15]: “Cybernetics is a reactionary pseudo-science...”
 
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Metadaten
Titel
The history of social choice in Russia and the Soviet Union
verfasst von
Fuad Aleskerov
Publikationsdatum
01.12.2005
Verlag
Springer-Verlag
Erschienen in
Social Choice and Welfare / Ausgabe 2-3/2005
Print ISSN: 0176-1714
Elektronische ISSN: 1432-217X
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00355-005-0011-0

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