Thursday, February 17, 2022
4:30 p.m., Rehm Library*
Nobel Prize Laureate Eric S. Maskin, Adams University Professor and professor of economics and mathematics at Harvard University, considers the ethics of voting systems to replace our flawed plurality rule—where voters vote once, and the candidate with the most votes wins, even if that candidate earns a minority share of votes. Countering Kenneth Arrow’s Impossibility Theorem, he challenges that there is a particular voting system that can satisfy our ethical principles and elect a president with a majority rule.
4:30 p.m., Rehm Library*
Nobel Prize Laureate Eric S. Maskin, Adams University Professor and professor of economics and mathematics at Harvard University, considers the ethics of voting systems to replace our flawed plurality rule—where voters vote once, and the candidate with the most votes wins, even if that candidate earns a minority share of votes. Countering Kenneth Arrow’s Impossibility Theorem, he challenges that there is a particular voting system that can satisfy our ethical principles and elect a president with a majority rule.
Featuring an introduction by Holy Cross President Vincent Rougeau.
Co-sponsored by the McFarland Center and the Economics Department.
*In-person attendance is limited to Holy Cross students, faculty and staff. Public access is via the livestream above.