[EM] Re: IIA Theory

[David Catchpole]

That's some really sad news.

On Fri, 8 Oct 1999, Tom Round wrote:

> Actually, only today I read in the "New Republic" on-line (at
> http://magazines.enews.com/magazines/tnr/current/coverstory102599.html) a
> reference to "the late William Riker", in a article discussing Rational
> Choice theory generally. So -- unless TNR was talking about the
> Enterprise's first officer -- I assume the author of "Liberalism Against
> Populism" has slowed down to zero ... Tom.
> 
> At 01:59 PM 10/8/99 +1000, you wrote:
> >On Fri, 8 Oct 1999, Craig Carey wrote:
> >
> >> If Mr Saari is a proponent of Borda, then he's at about where
> >>  I was in the 1st week of my researches. So he is protected
> >>  because people won't spend time on him. What is done about
> >>  the missing preferences. I suppose the final decider is 
> >>  what US schools do or whatever.
> >
> >Saari is, more or less, the US hegemony in voting theory at the moment,
> >the darling of Scientific American and popular mathematics mags while some
> >of the "old troops" in the person of Riker, etc. are slowing down.
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