Publication: On the Generic Impossibility of Truthful Behavior: A Simple Approach
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1993
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IVIE
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We provide an elementary proof showing how in economies with an arbitrary number of agents an arbitrary number of public goods and quasi-linear utility functions, any efficient and individuaHy rational mechanism is not strategy-proof for any economy satisfying a mild regularity requirement.