“You divide, I choose” remains the single most basic principle of voluntary social organization. It really should be an entire academic subdiscipline by itself, like prisoner’s dilemma
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that's the partial projection into economics/computer science, not a general study of the phenomenon
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It is! There are some very cool results, like a recent one for doing a bounded envy-free division for n players (arxiv.org/pdf/1604.03655), and a nice approximate one that's usable in practice (math.hmc.edu/~su/papers.dir) and powers nytimes.com/interactive/20.
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