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Spinoza, Leibniz, Kant, and Weyl

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The paper describes a funding mechanism called Quadratic Finance (QF) and deploys a bit of calculus to show that within a very clean and simple linear model QF maximizes social utility. They differentiate the social utility function. The mathematical content of this note is that by taking one further derivative, one may also deduce that QF is the unique solution.

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  • Michael H. Freedman, 2022. "Spinoza, Leibniz, Kant, and Weyl," Papers 2206.14711, arXiv.org, revised Jul 2022.
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    1. Vitalik Buterin & Zoë Hitzig & E. Glen Weyl, 2019. "A Flexible Design for Funding Public Goods," Management Science, INFORMS, vol. 65(11), pages 5171-5187, November.
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