Fair Play in Economics and Politics
Workshop in Honour of Steven J. Brams
Date: 25 March 2019, 09:00 - 17:00
Location: Cabinet Room, first floor, Virginia Woolf Building, 22 Kingsway, London, WC2B 6LE
This workshop was organised in honour of political scientist and game theorist Steven J. Brams (New York University), who is a pioneer in Approval Voting and Fair Division.
The workshop aimed to bring together researchers with an interest on fairness issues (broadly understood) in Economics and Politics—topics include Voting, Elections, Games, Sports, Coalition Formation, Algorithms, Discrimination, and more.
Program
09:30 - 09:40 Gathering – Coffee/Tea Break
09:40 - 09:50 Introduction to Catch-Up Fairness Workshop Series in Honour of Steven J. Brams (by M. Ismail)
Session 1
Chair: Kostas Matakos
- 09:50 - 10:20 Edith Elkind — “Justified Representation: From Axioms to Algorithms”
- 10:20 - 10:50 Adrian Blau — “One Concept of Fairness: Fairness as Equity, in Sport and Politics”
- 10:50 - 11:20 Kostas Matakos — “Electoral Rules, Strategic Entry and Polarization”
11:20 - 11:40 Coffee/Tea Break
Session 2
Chair: Adrian Blau
- 11:40 - 12:10 Bernhard von Stengel — “Computational progress on the Catch-Up game”
- 12:10 - 12:40 Alexander Matros — “Fair and Square Contests”
12:40 - 13:10 Lunch Break (sandwich lunch provided)
13:10 - 14:10 Lunch Break continued: Discussion / open problems session
Session 3
Chair: Elisa Cavatorta
- 14:10 - 14:40 Jean-Jacques Herings — “The Last will be First, and the First Last: Segregation in Societies with Positional Externalities”
- 14:40 - 15:10 Stephane Wolton — “A political economy of social discrimination”
15:10 - 15:30 Coffee/Tea Break
Session 4
Chair: Mehmet Ismail
- 15:30 - 16:00 Elisa Cavatorta — “Does exposure to violence affect reciprocity?”
- 16:00 - 16:30 Kutay Cingiz — “Multi-Battle n-Player Dynamic Contests: An Application to the U.S. Presidential Primaries”
- 16:30 - 17:00 Amrita Dhillon — “Next Generation Online Voting: The role of a blockchain based infrastructure”
Invited Speakers
- Adrian Blau (King’s College London)
- Kutay Cingiz (Wageningen University and Research)
- Elisa Cavatorta (King’s College London)
- Jean-Jacques Herings (Maastricht University)
- Amrita Dhillon (King’s College London)
- Edith Elkind (University of Oxford)
- Konstantinos Matakos (King’s College London)
- Alexander Matros (University of South Carolina)
- Bernhard von Stengel (London School of Economics and Political Science)
- Stephane Wolton (London School of Economics and Political Science)
The workshop was sponsored by King’s Policy Institute and supported by the Department of Political Economy at King’s College London.