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

[robert bristow-johnson]

On Jun 24, 2011, at 4:40 PM, fsimmons at pcc.edu wrote:

>
>> 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."

i coulda told you that (that's what motivated me to comment).  but you  
were able to remember much more about it than me.

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