Podcast
Institutional Design
Hosted by Nick Anyos · EN
Interviews on improving the mechanisms of collective decision-making
4episodes
Episodes
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Participatory Budgeting and Donor Coordination with Haris Aziz
Jun 22, 202301:12:23Tap to summarizeEpisode Transcript More info about the My Community Project Haris' academic website Haris' papers that we discuss: Participatory Budgeting: Models and Approaches Coordinating Monetary Contributions in Participatory Budgeting Portioning Using Ordinal Preferences: Fairness and Efficiency
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Liquid Democracy, Smart Voting, and Itero with Rachael Colley
Jun 11, 202301:11:54Tap to summarizeLiquid democracy is a voting system that allows voters to choose to either vote directly on an issue or delegate their voting power to another voter. Rachael Colley and I discuss the pros and cons of liquid democracy and her extension Smart Voting which allows voters to cast more complex and expressive votes. We finish with discussing an interactive voting platform she created called Itero. Links: Rachael's academic website First Paper: Smart Voting (and the awesome poster we mention) Second Paper: Itero: An Online Iterative Voting Application (and the Itero platform) Logo Design by Jenna Ong
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Forecasting Competitions and Prediction Markets with Rupert Freeman
Sep 15, 202201:06:57Tap to summarizeNick interviews Rupert Freeman on the design of forecasting competitions that incentivise all forecasters to report their honest predictions, and prediction markets that can use crowdsourced outcome determination without introducing new incentives for market manipulation. Links: Rupert Freeman's personal website First Paper: Incentive-Compatible Forecasting Competitions Second Paper: Crowdsourced Outcome Determination in Prediction Markets Augur, the crypto based prediction market we briefly discuss Another paper we discuss: Prediction Mechanisms That Do Not Incentivize Undesirable Actions Episode Transcript Logo design by Jenna Ong
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Kidney Exchange and Human Values with Rachel Freedman
Jul 14, 202200:39:37Tap to summarizeIn the first episode of the Institutional Design podcast, Nick Anyos and Rachel Freedman discuss her paper on modifying the kidney donor matching algorithms to factor in moral values of humans. Links from the discussion: Rachel Freedman’s personal website. The paper we discuss: Adapting a Kidney Exchange Algorithm to Align with Human Values A 5 minute video by Rachel on the paper. Episode Transcript Source for the fact check on blood type and race. Logo design by Jenna Ong
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