Demand Revelation and the Provision of Public Goods

The demand revelation process has been called a new and superior process for making social choices and holds some promise of creating an intellectual revolution in economics and politics. It relies on a so-called Clarke tax or pivot mechanism to ensure that individuals will adequately consider the social cost of their influence on social outcomes, thereby ensuring truthful revelation of preferences and overcoming the free rider problem of public goods provisioning. Read More »

Confessions of a Geoist

Edward Coverdale, a fictional character borrowed from Hawthorne (Blithedale Romance, 1852), discovers the following manuscript sitting alongside. Read more

About the VCG Mechanism

A Vickrey-Clarke-Groves (VCG) auction of multiple goods is a sealed-bid auction wherein bidders report their valuations for the items. The auction system assigns the items in a socially optimal manner. Read more

Public Goods

A Vickrey-Clarke-Groves (VCG) auction of multiple goods is a sealed-bid auction wherein bidders report their valuations for the items. The auction system assigns the items in a socially optimal manner. Read more

About Edward

Edward Clarke was a Senior Economist with the Office of Management and Budget, (Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs) involved in transportation regulatory affairs. He is a graduate of Princeton University and the University of Chicago, where he received a MBA and a Ph.D (1978). He worked in public policy at the city/regional (Chicago), State, Federal and international levels. Ed had been a Federal government economist for 27 years. Read more