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The Automated Economy — by David Pennock
David Pennock is a now rock star… in India:
- David Pennock’s post on The Automated Economy
- Videos – The Automated Economy
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David Pennock on The Automated Economy
- His post.
It’s the closest I’ll ever be to a rock star. A handful of people wait patiently around me while I try to get to everyone. Eventually the PR folks rescue me and take me to a “high tea” event with Yahoo! Bangalore execs and some recruiting targets.
- Videos – I am downloading them [...]
Eric Zitzewitz wanna bet with Brad DeLong.
Brad DeLong bended Eric Zitzewitz’s ear, and now our Dartmouth padawan wants a bet:
Brad,
The post you refer to is a follow up post to a post in March that does a similar analysis about the S&P 500.
http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/02/quantifying-the-nightmare-scenarios/
In that post (linked to in the post about Treasuries) I make the point about the marginal utility of [...]
The “efficient markets” hypothesis is dead.
An interesting piece in this morning’s FT by Gillian Tett.
The Chartered Financial Analyst Institute, which for many years had taught the so-called “efficient markets” hypothesis to thousands of students, asked its members for the first time if they trusted in “market efficiency” – and discovered that more than two-thirds of respondents no longer believed that [...]
The Freakonomics song
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If they stole Robin Hanson’s ideas on prediction markets, does it mean that his ideas are good?
Robin Hanson thinks so.
I would agree. What do you, guys, think?
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