Hal Finney wrote:
>The Feb 26 issue of Science News has a short article about new work on
>the problem of "fair division". ...
>The web page is http://www.math.hmc.edu/~su/fairdivision.
These people have gotten an amazing amount of attention for their
amateur attempt at mechanism design. There is a whole field of
mechanism design, my PhD advisor being one of the leading figures.
If I recall, he wasn't very impressed with this attempt, saying
they don't bother to show their mechanism is incentive compatible,
or to solve for an equilibrium of the game they propose.
Robin Hanson rhanson@gmu.edu http://hanson.gmu.edu
Asst. Prof. Economics, George Mason University
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