The Webinar on Why is democracy bad but everything else is worse? took place on Thursday, May 16th, 2024 from 5 pm until 6 pm, with Ruben Martinez-Avendaño, Professor in the Academic Department of Mathematics of the Autonomous Technological Institute of Mexico, as our invited speaker. This virtual event was free and open to the general public.
The invited speaker explained with examples different voting methods: majority, with agenda, the Borda count, Hare’s method and the dictator. Ruben Martinez-Avendaño then presented Kenneth Arrow’s Theorem of 1950, who won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1972. The speaker also mentioned that Saari in 2000 showed that the Borda count is the “least worst” of the voting methods. This virtual event was co-organized with the Mexican Mathematical Society (SMM).
