[EM] Proportionality vs utility: redoing 2008 with better units

[Kristofer Munsterhjelm]

On 2024-09-15 19:22, Joseph Malkevitch wrote:
> The value of mathematical modeling in areas such as voting, 
> apportionment, social welfare, etc. is that one can understand the 
> tradeoffs between desirable properties of a "system" where sometimes one 
> cannot achieve everything one might want simultaneously. Scholars who 
> have done this include K. Arrow, A. Sen, E. Huntington, M. Balinski, 
> H.P. Young, E. Maskin and F. Pukelsheim.

That's ultimately what I'm trying to do; that, and determining the 
"qualities" of multiwinner methods to guide my design of them, and to 
get some idea of how well existing methods fare.

-km