Subjects: Management Science >> Management Theory Subjects: Library Science，Information Science >> Utilization of Information Subjects: Other Disciplines >> Synthetic discipline submitted time 2024-05-12
Abstract： Purpose/Significance Arrow’s Impossibility Theorem (AIT) was stated and proved by Kenneth Joseph Arrow, one of the winners of the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1972. The New Economic and Financial Dictionary defines that the statement that a reasonable strategic decision on public goods can only be made by a competent public authority as a corollary of AIT. This corollary relationship has been widely circulated on the Internet and taught in classrooms, and established as a correct conclusion with AIT. However, this corollary relationship is not rigorous, or even wrong, and would lead the study on public choice, public economics, welfare economics, administrative jurisprudence and other disciplines in our country astray. Therefore, it is necessary to clarify misdirection from the theory, steer relevant disciplines toward the right direction. Method/Process Literature examination method were employed to review the origin and development of this corollary relationship, clarify the connotation and extension of related concepts in different disciplines, as well as the evolution logic of the relationship between related concepts. Result/Conclusion Relevant literature shows that this statement was first associated with AIT in the article Administrative Compulsion and the Realization of the Public Interest. Later, it was excerpted as a definition of AIT in the New Economic and Financial Dictionary and became a corollary of AIT. If the statement were a corollary of AIT, then, as long as AIT holds, decisions on public goods can only be imposed or dictated by a public authority. But in this evolution process, the connotations of public goods and public authority have changed in different disciplines, and the relation between them has evolved, taking the statement as a corollary of AIT is not very tight. AIT indeed causes public goods decision-making difficulties, but studies in the field of public choice does not conclude that the dilemma of decision-making on supply of public goods, arising from AIT, should be left to the imposition or dictatorship of the public authorities. On the contrary, they are committed to the institutional design of the voting mechanism in order to ensure that the supply of public goods is decided by population.
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Subjects: Library Science，Information Science >> Information Science submitted time 2018-08-14 Cooperative journals: 《智库理论与实践》
Abstract： [目的/意义]在当前的开放知识环境中，信息资源的有效配置能够对智库知识的有效生产与供给带来积极影响。因此需要将信息资源配置这一解释/分析工具引入到智库研究中来，用以解决当前我国新型智库建设过程中出现的现实问题。[方法/过程]分析了智库信息资源配置的理论构成单元和理论基础，构建了智库信息资源配置的理论框架，明确了框架下需要解决的关键问题。[结果/结论]开放知识环境提供了信息资源配置的对象，智库提供了信息资源配置的方向，智库信息资源配置的实质是信息资源与信息需求之间的匹配。在未来研究中需要对智库的信息内容、信息需求、信息行为进行深入调查，并建立智库信息资源配置效率和智库影响力之间的关联。
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