Nash was a first to axiomatize expected utility

Nash was a first to axiomatize expected utility

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Article ID: iaor20163733
Volume: 81
Issue: 3
Start Page Number: 309
End Page Number: 312
Publication Date: Sep 2016
Journal: Theory and Decision
Authors: , , ,
Keywords: game theory, risk, history
Abstract:

Nash is famous for many inventions, but it is less known that he, simultaneously with Marschak, also was the first to axiomatize expected utility for risk. In particular, these authors were the first to state the independence condition, a condition that should have been but was not stated by von Neumann and Morgenstern. Marschak’s paper resulted from interactions with several people at the Cowles Commission. We document unique letters and personal communications with Nash, Samuelson, Arrow, Dalkey, and others, making plausible that Nash made his discovery independently from the others.

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