Majorities against Utility: Implications of the Failure of the Miracle of Aggregation

Moderator: David Estlund

Speaker(s)

Bryan Caplan

George Mason University

Events

The Optimal Rule of Decision-making for Areopagus: Argued Voting or Apparent Consensus?

Microfoundations of Collective Wisdom

Group Deliberation and the Revision of Individual Judgments: A Social-Choice-Theoretic Perspecti…

Democracy Counts: Why Rulers should be Numerous?

Democratic Reason: the Mechanisms of Collective Intelligence in Politics

Majorities against Utility: Implications of the Failure of the Miracle of Aggregation

Rational Ignorance and Beyond

The Wisdom of International Decisions

Many-minds Arguments in Legal Theory

Symposium

23 May 2008

16:45 - 17:45

Dan Sperber et Hugo Mercier

Majorities against Utility: Implications of the Failure of the Miracle of Aggregation

Collective Wisdom and Democracy

Speaker(s)

Bryan Caplan

Events

Introduction

The Wisdom of Crowds Reconsidered

What Has Collective Wisdom to do with Wisdom?

Collaborative Filtering: the Wisdom of the Internet

The Optimal Design of a Constitution-making Process

The Optimal Rule of Decision-making for Areopagus: Argued Voting or Apparent Consensus?

Microfoundations of Collective Wisdom

Group Deliberation and the Revision of Individual Judgments: A Social-Choice-Theoretic Perspecti…

Democracy Counts: Why Rulers should be Numerous?

Democratic Reason: the Mechanisms of Collective Intelligence in Politics

Majorities against Utility: Implications of the Failure of the Miracle of Aggregation

Rational Ignorance and Beyond

The Wisdom of International Decisions

Many-minds Arguments in Legal Theory

Reasoning as a Social Activity

See also