People's utility levels are meant to be measures of their well-being. Early utilitarians defined them in terms of people's happiness. Modern economics defines them in terms of people's actual preferences. But in ethics they have to be defined in terms of people's informed preferences. I shall...

John C. Harsanyi's rejoinder to comments and replies to Kadane, J. B., P. D. Larkey. 1982. Subjective probability and the theory of games. Management Sci. 28 (2) 113--120 and Kadane, J. B., P. D. Larkey. 1982. Reply to Professor Harsanyi. Management Sci. 28 (2) 124.

Prize Lecture to the memory of Alfred Nobel, December 9, 1994.

I was born in Budapest, Hungary, on May 29, 1920. The high school my parents chose for me was the Lutheran Gymnasium in Budapest, one of the best schools in Hungary, with such distinguished alumni as John von Neumann and Eugene Wigner. I was very happy in this school and received a superb...