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The interpretations of the Waterloo campaign are numerous, diverse and constantly reworked, so they are part of history no less than the event itself. This article briefly reviews them before considering more carefully two selected interpreters, i.e., Clausewitz and Stendhal. It likens the...
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The paper has a twofold aim. On the one hand, it provides what appears to be the first game-theoretic modeling of Napoleon’s last campaign, which ended dramatically on 18 June 1815 at Waterloo. It is specifically concerned with the decision Napoleon made on 17 June 1815 to detach part of his...
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According to a theorem recently proved in the theory of logical aggregation, any nonconstant social judgment function that satisfies independence of irrelevant alternatives (IIA) is dictatorial. The author shows that the strong and not very plausible IIA condition can be replaced with a minimal...
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La théorie de l’agrégation des jugements, ou, comme elle est ici conçue,de l’agrégation logique, généralise celle du choix social en faisant porter la règle d’agrégation sur des jugements quelconques au lieu des seuls jugements depréférence. Elle procède du paradoxe doctrinal de...
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Créé par une loi du 1er décembre 2008, le revenu de solidarité active (RSA remplace depuis le 1er juin 2009 deux minima sociaux, le revenu minimum d'insertion (RMI) et l'allocation de parent isolé (API), sur les neuf que comptait le système français. Il est conçu pour aider les...
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Judgment (or logical) aggregation theory is logically more powerful than social choice theory and has been put to use to recover some classic results of this field. Whether it could also enrich it with genuinely new results is still controversial. To support a positive answer, the authors prove...
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Nudge is a semantically multifarious concept that originates in Thaler and Sunstein's (2008) popular eponymous book. In one of its senses, it is a policy for redirecting an agent's choices by only slightly altering his choice conditions, in another sense, it is concerned with bounded rationality...
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De tous les problèmes conçus par la théorie de la décision, le paradoxe d'Allais est peut-être celui qui aura suscité l'intérêt le plus persistant. La théorie y a consacré assez de travaux techniques remarquables pour qu'il soit désormais possible à l'histoire et à la philosophie...
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Author's abstract. <p>L'article compare philosophiquement la théorie mathématique de la décision individuelle, d'une part, et la conception psychologique ordinaire de l'action, du désir et de la croyance, d'autre part.Il délimite plus strictement son objet en étudiant, sous cet angle...</p>
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Judgment aggregation theory, or rather, as we conceive of it here, logical aggregation theory generalizes social choice theory by having the aggregation rule bear on judgments of all kinds instead of merely preference judgments. It derives from Kornhauser and Sager’s doctrinal paradox and...
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