The publication of the first book by Kenneth Arrow and Hervé
Raynaud, in 1986, led to an important wave of research in the field
of axiomatic approach applied to managerial logic. Managerial Logic
summarizes the prospective results of this research and offers
consultants, researchers, and decision makers a unified framework
for handling the difficult decisions they face.
Based on confirmed results of experimental psychology, this book
places the problem in a phenomenological framework and shows how
the influence of traditional methods has slowed the effective
resolution of these problems. It provides a panorama of principal
concepts and theorems demonstrated on axiomatized methods to guide
readers in choosing the best alternatives and rejecting the worst
ones. Finally, it describes the obtained extensions, often
paradoxical, reached when these results are extended to
classification problems.
The objective of this book is also to allow the decision maker to
find his way through the plethora of ‘multicriterion
methods’ promoted by council organizations. The meta-method
it proposes will allow him to distinguish the wheat from the
chaff.
The collaboration with Kenneth Arrow comes essentially from the
fact that his work influenced all subsequent works quoted in this
book. His famous impossibility theorem, his gem of a Ph D thesis,
and his various other works resulted in him receiving the Nobel
Prize for economy just before meeting Hervé Raynaud who was at
that time a visiting professor at Berkeley University in
California. Their mutual publications serve as the basis for the
axiomatic approach in multicriterion decision-making.
عن المؤلف
Hervé Raynaud, a former student of the école Polytechnique and an honorary emeritus professor of Mathematics, has worked with about 20 academic organizations around the world. A former psychoanalyst, researcher, and international consultant, he is now teaching at the Sigmund Freud University of Vienna, in its Paris branch, and at the Conservatoire National de la Villette in France.
Kenneth J. Arrow is an American economist and a joint winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics with John Hicks in 1972. His most significant works deal with social choice theory, notably ‘Arrow’s impossibility theorem’ and his research on general equilibrium analysis. He is currently the Joan Kenney Professor of Economics and Professor of Operations Research, Emeritus at Stanford University.