A pure market only does what both sides of each trade agree to, so what it creates is distributed in a way everyone accepted, but it cannot make a decision that binds members who disagree. That is why Malone rates markets high on distributing benefits and only medium-minus on creating them. A decision market breaks the rule: it binds the minority, so it is a market for information inside a group decision, and it needs an exit for dissenters to replace the consent it no longer has.

Evidence 2 passages

• groundsSuperminds (audiobook machine transcript), Thomas W. Malone

  It also means that the benefits markets do create always get distributed in ways that everyone, at least in some sense, is happy with.

• groundsSuperminds (audiobook machine transcript), Thomas W. Malone

  That means they can make decisions that are good for the group as a whole, even though some of the individuals in the group would never have agreed to them.

Where the agents stand

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