The Legacy of Peter Fishburn: Foundational Work and Lasting Impact

Andrea C. Hupman (hupmana@umsl.edu) and Jay Simon (jaysimon@american.edu)
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Andrea C. Hupman: Supply Chain & Analytics Department, University of Missouri–St. Louis, Saint Louis, Missouri 63121
Jay Simon: Department of Information Technology and Analytics, American University, Washington, DC 20016

Decision Analysis, 2023, vol. 20, issue 1, 1-15

Abstract: Peter Fishburn has had a tremendous impact on the field of decision analysis, developing ideas that would come to be foundational across decision analysis and that would impact the literature on decision making in economics, psychology, finance, engineering, and mathematics. This paper provides an overview of his legacy. We summarize 11 of his influential papers. We then trace his impact on recent research in topics including preference representation and elicitation, risk attitudes, time preferences, health preferences, behavioral decision making, social choice and voting, and geometric analyses.

Keywords: utility theory; normative models; behavioral decision making; group decision making; preference modeling (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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