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Re: Kaldor-Hicks Non-Transitive (none / 1)

Why would that exclude it from being taught?

by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Wed Jun 14th, 2006 at 12:00:06 PM EST
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Re: Kaldor-Hicks Non-Transitive (none / 0)

Consistency, I suppose. (Believe me when I say that over half of the students in my math econ class would've needed months to make the transition.) Also, the small amount of time meant that the classes dealing with this area never went beyond Pareto.

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by Drew J Jones (myfriends@thisispancakes.com) on Wed Jun 14th, 2006 at 12:09:35 PM EST
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Re: Kaldor-Hicks Non-Transitive (none / 0)

Was Arrow's theorem mentioned/discussed/explained?

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by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Wed Jun 14th, 2006 at 12:10:55 PM EST
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Re: Kaldor-Hicks Non-Transitive (none / 0)

Yes, I vaguely remember it being mentioned, and I have it written down in my notebook, somewhere in the depths of my closet.

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by Drew J Jones (myfriends@thisispancakes.com) on Wed Jun 14th, 2006 at 12:13:11 PM EST
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Re: Kaldor-Hicks Non-Transitive (none / 0)

Transition? Transition to what?

by ATinNM on Wed Jun 14th, 2006 at 07:45:55 PM EST
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Re: Kaldor-Hicks Non-Transitive (none / 0)

The equations we dealt with had to be transitive, according to (if I remember the name correctly) the Generalized Axiom of Revealed Preferences. But, in all honesty, I took that class quite some time ago, and my memory of the lectures is more than a bit cloudy.

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by Drew J Jones (myfriends@thisispancakes.com) on Wed Jun 14th, 2006 at 09:11:54 PM EST
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