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How to elect and rank

Overcoming paradoxes of social choice, electing a president and ranking wines

Duration: 01:26:25

How to elect and rank

Overcoming paradoxes of social choice, electing a president and ranking wines

Why the "first-past-the-post" method of electing one among several candidates—the most used method of all—is seriously defective, often elects the "wrong" candidate... and what to do about it.

The second in a series of three Messenger Lectures on representing, electing and ranking by Michel Balinski, Professor Emeritus, École Polytechnique, Paris.

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