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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 … Continue reading

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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 – 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 … Continue reading

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Folks, yesterday, I forgot to link to the PDF file posted by the CFTC (their “concept release”, how snobbish). Download it, and read it —we’ll discuss it later, here. No need to rush an opinion, we have about 2 months to make up our collective mind. Let’s have it open.

Via professor Eric Zitzewitz of Dartmouth, the CFTC announcement. – CFTC’s Concept Release – (PDF file) – InTrade’s John Delaney’s message to the prediction market crowd. – Midas Oracle authors (and that includes PMIA’s Emile Servan-Schreiber) can post their views, … Continue reading

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The Journal Of Prediction Markets – January 2008

The Journal Of Prediction Markets: Steven Levitt, author of Freakonomics, makes important contribution to the third issue: Testing the efficiency of Markets in the 2002 World Cup by Steven Levitt with co author Richard Gil heads the list of interesting … Continue reading

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Can you think of another name to add in this list?

Acknowledments – Friedrich August von Hayek (an economist who introduced, among other things, the concept of the market as an information aggregation tool in The Use of Knowledge in Society, and the 1974 co-winner of the Nobel Prize in economics); … Continue reading

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Prediction markets are the best way to tap into the wisdom of crowds.

Swarm Creativity Blog: Thursday, April 26, 2007 On Stage: Scott Cooper, MIT researcher with the Sloan School of Management, co-author of Coolhunting Peter Gloor, MIT researcher with the Sloan School of Management, co-author of Coolhunting Steve O’Keefe, moderator Listening in … Continue reading

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