Imagine yourself as an assistant professor and getting this
letter from America's most well-known economist.
I should not be surprised if someone who imposes more
conditions on a Bergson function than he did, or than I would care
to do in most applications, should be able to come up with an
impossibility theorem [...]. At my hasty first reading I did not
find anything appealing in your neutrality axiom. Arrow, for his
voting problem, after all nominates axioms that people have thought
appealing until he showed them what their implications were in the
context of assuming other appealing axioms.
Samuelson to Parks, 1973
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