Category Archives: Resources – References

Knowns and unknowns of the 2012 presidential elections — [LINK]

“We gather information from a variety of sources (some of which are themselves information aggregators), including prediction markets, polls, web search, social activity, games, and historical precedent, and combine it together to produce a Consensus Prediction that is as unbiased, … Continue reading

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PredictWise — [LINK]

A blog on market-generated predictions: PredictWise aggregates, analyzes, and creates predictions on politics, sports, finance, and entertainment. We created PredictWise because we thought it would be interesting and informative for people to better understand the likelihood of certain major events … Continue reading

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The Five Dysfunctions of Leadership — [BOOK]

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Steve Randy Waldman wants to create a bloggers’ think tank. — [IDEA]

Good idea put up by Steve Waldman at the Econ Blog Forum. I am all for.

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Kauffman Economics Bloggers Forum — [WEBCAST]

The Kauffman Economics Bloggers Forum will be Webcast live from 8:30 a.m. – 11 a.m., and 1 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. CDT on Friday, April 1, 2011

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2 academic sites worth bookmarking — [LINKS]

http://thinkquarterly.co.uk/ http://theconversation.edu.au/

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Internet-based encyclopedia Wikipedia is 10 years old. – [VIDEO]

Jimmy Wales: What he thinks of Quora at 7:30… he doesn’t think much of it: ADDENDUM: Jimmy Wales on the “wisdom of crowds”:

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When is “censorship” on Wikipedia entries acceptable? – [VIDEO]

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The Best Economics Blogs

WSJ. Congrats to Tyler Cowen of Marginal Revolution —and all the other ones cited. {They forgot Freakonomics.}

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BetFair’s Mark Davies is (finally) blogging.

Two years ago, I wrote that the man should go blogging. Done. Finally. A view from opposite Harrods –> http://markxdavies.blogspot.com/ Truly interesting. Bookmark. Subscribe. Read. Via Crowded Voice UPDATE: And he tweets too.

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