Emile Servan-Schreiber comments on a New York Times opinion piece:
The idea that betting could help us gain clarity on some controversial scientific questions has first been proposed by George Mason economics professor Robin Hanson in 1992 in a paper entitled “Could Gambling Save Science” and available online here: http://hanson.gmu.edu/gamble.html
The benefits of creating prediction markets about controversial climate-change issues in particular is further developed on Nate Silver’s blog and in this presentation given at CalTech in 2004: http://us.newsfutures.com/home/environmentalFutures.html
