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1987 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel

Incentive-based Decentralization: Expected-Externality Payments Induce Efficient Behaviour in Groups

verfasst von : John W. Pratt, Richard Zeckhauser

Erschienen in: Arrow and the Ascent of Modern Economic Theory

Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK

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Thirty-five years ago Kenneth Arrow asked a profound question: Is it ‘formally possible to pass from a set of known individual tastes to a pattern of social decision-making, the procedure in question being required to satisfy certain natural conditions’? (Arrow, 1951, p. 2). He laid out an appealing set of conditions and demonstrated that the answer was ‘No’. The vast literature that followed, frequently played musical chairs with his requirements while it tiptoed along the border of infeasibility.

Metadaten
Titel
Incentive-based Decentralization: Expected-Externality Payments Induce Efficient Behaviour in Groups
verfasst von
John W. Pratt
Richard Zeckhauser
Copyright-Jahr
1987
Verlag
Palgrave Macmillan UK
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-07239-2_13