[EM] Eric Maskin promotes the Black method (fsimmons at pcc.edu)

fsimmons at pcc.edu fsimmons at pcc.edu
Fri Jun 24 13:40:51 PDT 2011


> The first time I heard the phrase "True Majority Winner" was in 
> the Scientific American article six or eight 
> years ago on Condorcet Voting. The point of the article was 
> that if you believe in majority rule, you 
> should prefer electing the CW over any other alternative. But at 
> the end of the article (in order to give a 
> definite example of a decisive Condorcet method) they proposed a 
> method that turned out to be 
> Copeland with a Borda tie breaker, i.e. just slightly different 
> (and almost as bad as) Black.
> 
> Note that Copeland with a Borda tie breaker is not quite as bad 
> as Black for the same reason that 
> Beatpath(covering, wv) is slightly better than Beatpath(wv).

The Scientific American article I was thinking of was actually seven years ago, and ironically, one of the 
authors was Eric Maskin!

The title was "The Fairest Vote of All."

It was in the March 2004 issue.

The authors were Partha Dasgupta and Eric Maskin.



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