We propose a design for philanthropic or publicly-funded seeding to allow (near) optimal provision of a decentralized, self-organizing ecosystem of public goods. The concept extends ideas from Quadratic Voting to a funding mechanism for endogenous community formation. Individuals make public goods contributions to projects of value to them. The amount received by the project is (proportional to) the square of the sum of the square roots of contributions received. Under the "standard model" this yields first best public goods provision. Variations can limit the cost, help protect against collusion and aid coordination. We discuss applications to campaign finance, open source software ecosystems, news media finance and urban public projects. More broadly, we offer a resolution to the classic liberal-communitarian debate in political philosophy by providing neutral and non-authoritarian rules that nonetheless support collective organization. https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.06421 (DeepL)
Quadratic Funding Vitalik Buterin, Zoe Hitzig, E. Glen Weyl
この論文では、公共財の資金調達のための新しいメカニズムである二次資金調達(Quadratic Financing, QF)が提案されています。主なポイントは以下の通りです。
既存の資金調達方式の限界を克服し、公共財の最適供給を目指す革新的なメカニズムとして、実社会での実験と理論のさらなる進展が期待される提案だと言えます。
Quadratic Finance Submitted on 17 Sep 2018