Strategy-proof choice of acts : a preliminary study

We model social choices as acts mapping states of the world to (social) outcomes. A (social choice) rule assigns an act to every profile of subjective expected utility preferences over acts. A rule is strategy-proof if no agent ever has an incentive to misrepresent her beliefs about the world or her valuation of the outcomes; it is ex-post efficient if the act selected at any given preference profile picks a Pareto-efficient outcome in every state of the world. We show that every two-agent ex-post efficient and strategy-proof rule is a top selection: the chosen act picks the most preferred outcome of some (possibly different) agent in every state of the world. The states in which an agent’s top outcome is selected cannot vary with the reported valuations of the outcomes but may change with the reported beliefs. We give a complete characterization of the ex-post efficient and strategy-proof rules in the two-agent, two-state case, and we identify a rich class of such rules in the two-agent case.

The modern housewife, or, Ménagère : comprising nearly one thousand receipts, for the economic and judicious preparation of every meal of the day : with those of the nursery and sick room, and minute directions for family management in all its branches : illustrated with engravings /

Includes sections on: comforts for invalids, removes, entrees, dishes with the remains of lamb, garniture for omlettes, beverages for evening parties.

Report of Messrs. Benj. Wright and J. L. Sullivan, engineers, engaged in the survey of the route of the proposed canal,

Pages [57]-70 contain: "An act to incorporate the president, managers and company, of the Delaware and Hudson Canal Company.

Documents relative to the colonial history of the state of New-York : procured in Holland, England, and France /

Includes index.

Report.

Title varies slightly.

Governor and judges journal; proceedings of the Land board of Detroit;

Introduction.--Journal of the proceedings of the governor and judges of Michigan, acting as commissioners under an act of Congress entitled "An act to provide for the adjustment of titles of land in the town of Detroit and territory of Michigan ..." [Oct. 24, 1808-Feb. 5, 1821]--Appendix: Notes.--[Documents] copied from original papers in the City hall, Detroit [1806-1835]--Index.

The history of the Five Indian nations of Canada,

Sabin, 14273, Sabin notes: "The English editor also shows an antipathy to Indian names, suppressing them habitually, striking out important passages, and, instead of the speeches which Colden gives at length, substitutes meagre abridgments. In fact, the whole work is so cut up and altered, that the reader of the English edition cannot be sure he is quoting Colden at all"

Camp lots leases on and access to public reserved lands : study of the Joint Standing Committee on Energy and Natural Resources : submitted to the Second Regular Session of the 111th Legislature.

"An Act Concerning Income Derived from Public Reserved Lots":leaves 1-3 (last group)

Annual report of the Massachusetts Agricultural Experiment Station.

Established as the "Hatch Experiment Station" under an act of Congress, 1887, it was, in 1888, made the Experiment Department of the Massachusetts Agricultural College. With it was incorporated, 1895, the State Agricultural Experiment Station, which was located also at Amherst.

Report.

The board was organized Jan. 27, 1914, under an act of June 19, 1911.

Medical service plan corporations /

"An act to provide for the incorporation, supervision, regulation and dissolution of medical service plan corporations, and to prescribe penalties for the violation of the provisions of this act (approved July 25, 1945)."

Rules and regulations of Illinois Liquor Control Commission.

Description based on: 1938.

Essex Historical Society. Incorporated June 11, 1821.

In 1848 the Essex County Natural History Society and the Essex Historical Society united to form the Essex Institute.

The charter and laws of Hampden-Sydney College. 1824.

"Board of Trustees": p. [7]

A display of the religious principles of the Associate Synod of North America.

"Contains all the printed papers which display the religious principles of the Associate Presbytery of Pennsylvania." -- Pref. signed: William Marshall.