We study a standard model of exchange economies with individual endowments. It is well known that no rule is individually rational, e cient, and strategyproof. In order to quantify the extent of this impossibility, we parametrize axioms on allocation rules. Given an axiom A, a parametrization of A is a continuum of axioms {δ-A}δ∈[0,1] such that (i) δ-A is equivalent to A only if δ = 1; (ii) δ-A...

Pointfree topology is, as the name suggests, a way of studying spaces without (mentioning) points. This idea is more natural than one might initially think. For example, when drawing a point on paper, we do no draw an actual point, but a collection of points somewhere near the desired one. We drew a “spot”, which can be reduced in size if that would be required to serve our purposes. Hence it m...