Before revision: Divide and Choose among two agents , and the Diminishing Share (DS) and Moving Knife (MK) algorithms among many, elicit parsimonious information to guarantee to each a Fair Share, worth at least 1/ n-th of the whole manna. Our n-person Divide and Choose (D C) rule, unlike DS and MK, works if the manna has subjectively good and bad parts.
After revision: Divide and Choose among two agents , and the Diminishing Share (DS) and Moving Knife (MK) algorithms among many, elicit parsimonious information to guarantee to each a Fair Share, worth at least 1/ C) rule, unlike DS and MK, works if the manna has subjectively good and bad parts.