Monthly Archives: October 2009

Save the Honeybees

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TRAFIGURA: The Guardian was served with a gagging order forbidding it from reporting parliamentary business.

“The Guardian is prevented from identifying the MP who has asked the question, what the question is, which minister might answer it, or where the question is to be found. The Guardian is also forbidden from telling its readers why … Continue reading

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CNBC Mad Money’s Jim Cramer discusses the state of the US economy.

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French TV news anchor is accused (by a leftist media) to favor liberalization of France’s Internet betting and gambling industry —which his employer has business interest into.

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Ladbrokes’ shareholders must call for Bell’s head.

In February 2008 the tame and compliant UK  press were falling over themselves to announce the great news that the English billionaire Joe Lewis had taken a stake of 7% in Ladbrokes, worth about £133m. The Guardian’s Nils Pratley was … Continue reading

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The connection between 2009 Nobel Prize in Economics winner Elinor Ostrom’s work on the governance of common-pool resources and relatively recent work on knowledge commons.

“Ostrom’s pioneering work mostly concerns the governance of common-pool resources — resources that are rivalrous (i.e., scarce, can be used up, unlike digital goods) yet need to be or should be governed as a commons — classically, things like water … Continue reading

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Predicting the decision of a private committee is inherently a task ill-suited for prediction markets.

Prof Panos Ipeirotis: I am a “calibrationist”. But I am strongly with Chris in this: Predicting the decision of a private committee is inherently a task ill-suited for prediction markets. Olympic Games, Nobel prizes, and similar events cannot be predicted. … Continue reading

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Huge interest for the Nobel prize predictions, but the prediction markets are “pathetic”.

“Just shows you that there is a lot more to prediction markets than building the mechanism. These were the latest in pathetic examples of prediction markets.” More from Paul Hewitt: I can hardly wait for the prediction market calibration proponents … Continue reading

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The director of “Not Evil, Just Wrong” (a documentary challenging Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth”) dares to ask a question at the Society of Environmental Journalists annual conference.

“Apparently Mr. Gore only allows the ‘right kind’ of questions to be asked of him.” Not Evil, Just Wrong @ Twitter

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Nobel Prize for Economics 2009 — Prediction Accuracy

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel for 2009 to Elinor Ostrom “for her analysis of economic governance, especially the commons” and Oliver E. Williamson … Continue reading

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