[EM] Eric Maskin promotes the Black method

[Kristofer Munsterhjelm]

Paul Kislanko wrote:
> Marcus wrote:
> Maskin's argumentation doesn't work because
> of the following reason: Whether an election
> method is good or bad depends on which criteria
> it satisfies. 
> 
> ----
> 
> Now, if "good" and "bad" are defined by which criteria methods satisfy, it
> seems to me that having introduced "judgement" we need "judges" to define
> the "goodness" of each criterion. And if there are more than 2 "judges" to
> decide the "goodness" of more than two criteria, there is no unambiguous way
> to consolidate the opinions of the "judges."
> 
> I think Maskin's "arguent" is actually a really old one - if there's a CW
> nobody really has a complaint (though there are pathological cases where the
> CW is disliked by a majority of the voters...) and if there's not a CW use
> Borda (or Bucklin or ...) considering only the smallest Smith Set.

Condorcet//Borda isn't Smith, though. As I pointed out, if we like 
Condorcet, why not also like Smith; and if we like Smith, why not also 
like Landau, etc?