“It's worth repeating here, though, because we are talking about mechanisms for resolving conflict and many people don't realize it's impossible to devise a foolproof scheme.”

— Howard Raiffa

Part IV, Chapter 23, Voting, p. 331.
The Art and Science of Negotiation (1982)

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American academic 1924–2016

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