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Nigel Eccles’ flawed “vision” about HubDub shows that he hasn’t any.
[IMPORTANT NOTE: This present post is critical of one point expressed by Nigel Eccles, but, overall, I like this Scottish guy, and I enjoy HubDub's prediction markets a lot.]
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Nigel Eccles:
Quoting HubDub forecasts in news stories about future events will be as common as quoting stock prices in financial stories is today or (in the UK) [...]
James Surowiecki, author of The Wisdom of Crowds, sums up his book.
Video #1
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Video #2
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James Surowiecki, author of The Wisdom of Crowds, talks to the Midas Oracle readers.
James Surowiecki – Short video
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Inkling Markets’ Advisory Board… which does not want to tell its name
Via Daniel Horowitz (Business and Technology Consultant)
Inkling Markets’ Advisory Board (curiously named “Friends Of Inkling”):
Bo Cowgill, Google Inc. — Product developer, expert on decision markets for Google; creator of Google’s prediction market and co-author of Using Prediction Markets to Track Information Flows: Evidence From Google.
George Gendron, Clark University — Founder and director of the Innovation [...]
CALL TO ACTION: Let’s fight so that the CFTC allows the FOR-PROFIT prediction exchanges to deal with “event markets”.
The second feedback I have received about my speculative post goes like this: …If some believe that the CFTC might rule that “event markets” should be treated only by not-for-profit, IEM-like, prediction exchanges… …while some others think that’s not the case… …even though a powerful American think tank is advocating that only not-for-profit prediction exchanges [...]
Justin Wolfers should have his own Wikipedia entry.
Any Wikipedian out there willing to start off his page?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justin_Wolfers
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Robin Hanson, Tyler Cowen, Steve Levitt, and even Don Luskin and Robert Scoble, have their own Wikipedia entry. Why not Wolfers???… I realized that when I updated my “acknowledgments” page:
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Acknowledgments
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- Friedrich August Von Hayek (an economist who introduced, among other things, the concept of the market [...]
Commenting on Midas Oracle
As you know, some people commenting here told me they went into trouble, even when they were logged in. I found out why. The anti-spam plugin “WP Spam Free” does not exempt registered blog users from its anti-spam checking. It only exempts the administrator (me). That’s absurd. (See the WP forum.) The registered users of [...]