[EM] Auctions

2008-11-01 Thread Greg Nisbet
Voting by auction-- morally repugnant but strategy free! The simple, humble Clarke tax method does seem a bituh unfair to me. There are various ways to remedy this problem like having it be based on the log of your income or making it based on how much income you have left as a means of judging

[EM] Auction-type Iteration

2008-11-01 Thread Greg Nisbet
I think I should explain this a bit further and add more examples and possible methods. For the moment, just focus on the naive Overvote and DIE method Naive Auction Range. I am not quite sure of the time complexity of this, but two conditions would allow it to terminate its loop early: 1) if

Re: [EM] language/framing quibble

2008-11-01 Thread Kristofer Munsterhjelm
Fred Gohlke wrote: Good Morning, Kristofer There is so much good material in your message that, instead of responding to all of it, I'm going to select bits and pieces and comment on them, one at a time, until I've responded to all of them. I hope this will help us focus on specific parts

Re: [EM] Auctions

2008-11-01 Thread Raph Frank
On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 7:53 AM, Greg Nisbet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Voting by auction-- morally repugnant but strategy free! Why? In any case, the Clarke tax method has serious issues, but in principle, you give each option on honest utility rating. The simple, humble Clarke tax method does