Reviews for Fair Division: From Cake-Cutting to Dispute Resolution

The average rating for Fair Division: From Cake-Cutting to Dispute Resolution based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2015-04-09 00:00:00 Anthony Sims I came to this book immediately after reading Cake-Cutting Algorithms: Be Fair if You Can, mainly because the former gave only the briefest of treatments for allocation of indivisible resources. The two books are about 50% conterminous. One difference is that Be Fair includes many practical examples from political science, law and business. Fair Division: From Cake-Cutting to Dispute Resolution also is polemic; with Brams and Taylor performing hand-waving arguments for adoption their home grown algorithms. Be Fair belongs on political science bookshelf much more than to mathematics. "Proofs" tend to limp, and I believe I have detected numerous errors. But I wouldn't want to condemn the book or even to dissuade its reading. It covers the spectrum; from cake cutting, to auctions, to elections and split the dollar. Everywhere Be Fair manages to introduce novel and interesting approaches. But anyone who grew up in a culture of mathematical rigour will encounter chapped lips from all the biting. A particularly low point occurs when B&T demonstrate that truth telling is not a dominant strategy of one of their algorithms.They nonetheless insist that the participants might as well state honest preferences anyway, since the optimal strategy is too hard for them to determine.

Review # 2 was written on 2014-07-11 00:00:00 Joseph Pisano A good book that was researched very well. Reasonable conclusions. The surprise is that some of management actually want to cede some power to the employees.