badger comments on Strategyproof Mechanisms: Possibilities - LessWrong

23 Post author: badger 02 June 2014 02:26AM

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Comment author: badger 11 June 2014 02:10:32PM 2 points [-]

It turns out the only Pareto efficient, individually rational (ie everyone never gets something worse than their initial job), and strategyproof mechanism is Top Trading Cycles. In order to make Cato better off, we'd have to violate one of those in some way.