Short Odds for Ignorance

Paul Tetlock October 9th, 2006

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We wrote an Op-Ed in today’s NY Times about the recent anti-gambling legislation and its possible impact on prediction markets. Our main point is that prohibiting Internet betting could unintentionally slow the emergence of new markets that have the potential to improve the productivity of the private sector and the government.

You can find it in the New York Times, or read it here, on the AEI-Brookings Joint Center on Regulatory Studies’s web site.

Robert Hahn and Paul Tetlock

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