[PEN-L:4736] Re: query -- collective goods problem

[Gil Skillman <gskillman@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Curtis wrote:

>Jim -
>
>     In _Science News_, May 4, 1996, p.284, Ivars Peterson wrote
>an article with the title "Formulas for Fairness: Applying the
>math of cake cutting to conflict resolution_."  The article
>reports on the recent work of political scientist Steven J.Brams
>of New York University and mathematician Alan D. Taylor of Union
>College in Schenectady, N.Y.  The article is two pages in length
>and most libraries carry the recent copies of _Sci News_ in their
>reference sections, at least my neighborhood library in S.F.
>does.
>
>     Let me give two brief quotes from this article:
[......]

It seems to me as though the prisoners' dilemma and the cake cutting problem
are essentially different non-cooperative games, in that the latter is
constant-sum and the former isn't.  That said, I'm glad Curtis mentioned
this article--I'm going out to get it.   Gil