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In the Beginning there were n Agents: Founding and Amending a Constitution
Ben Abramowitz, Ehud Shapiro, Nimrod Talmon
Consider n agents forming an egalitarian, self-governed community. Their first task is to decide on a decision rule to make further decisions. We start from a rather general initia…
Electing the Executive Branch
Rutvik Page, Ehud Shapiro, Nimrod Talmon
The executive branch, or government, is typically not elected directly by the people, but rather formed by another elected body or person such as the parliament or the president. A…
Fault-Tolerant Distributed-Ledger Implementation of Digital Social Contracts
Ouri Poupko, Ehud Shapiro, Nimrod Talmon
A companion paper defined the notion of digital social contracts, presented a design for a social-contracts programming language, and demonstrated its potential utility via example…
Egalitarian and Just Digital Currency Networks
Gal Shahaf, Ehud Shapiro, Nimrod Talmon
Cryptocurrencies are a digital medium of exchange with decentralized control that renders the community operating the cryptocurrency its sovereign. Leading cryptocurrencies use pro…
Digital Social Contracts: A Foundation for an Egalitarian and Just Digital Society
Luca Cardelli, Liav Orgad, Gal Shahaf +2
Almost two centuries ago Pierre-Joseph Proudhon proposed social contracts -- voluntary agreements among free people -- as a foundation from which an egalitarian and just society ca…
United for Change: Deliberative Coalition Formation to Change the Status Quo
Edith Elkind, Davide Grossi, Ehud Shapiro +1
We study a setting in which a community wishes to identify a strongly supported proposal from a space of alternatives, in order to change the status quo. We describe a deliberation…