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Harvard Ec10 Walkout — [VIDEO]

Students walk out of Professor N. Gregory Mankiw’s Economics 10 class in solidarity with the Occupy Movement and Occupy Oakland:

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Daryl Bem’s retrocausality paper discussed at Harvard — [VIDEO]

Riveting. ADDENDUM: Daryl Bem at Colbert.

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Harvard University crétins did bet on swaps and ended up losing $500 million.

“Harvard paid $497.6 million during the fiscal year ended June 30 to get out of $1.1 billion of interest-rate swaps intended to hedge variable-rate debt for capital projects, the report said. The university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, said it also agreed … Continue reading

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Harvard CS286r: Topics at the Interface between Computer Science and Economics

Fall 2008 Topic: Social Computing CS286r Additional Resources

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Papers on prediction markets listed on Yiling Chen’s Harvard webpage:

- Publications An Empirical Study of Dynamic Pari-mutuel Markets: Evidence from the Tech Buzz Game [PDF, 380k] Yiling Chen, David M. Pennock, and Tejaswi Kasturi The 10th Workshop on Web Mining and Web Usage Analysis (WebKDD), in conjunction with the … Continue reading

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LET’S REVISIT HISTORY: In May 2007, Harvard professor of economics Kenneth Rogoff laughed in Paul Wolfowitz’s face.

BACKGROUND INFO: Kenneth Rogoff is a visiting scholar at the Brookings Institution and professor of economics at Harvard University. – May 2007′s Blog Post: INSIDER TRADING: World Bank employees speculating on the Paul Wolfowitz event derivatives at InTrade-TradeSports?? – - … Continue reading

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The best researchers on prediction markets

CFM: Scholars Check that CFM page for updates. And contact me so I can make additions to the list. (I’ll then re-publish that updated list on Midas Oracle.) – Michael Abramowicz – Michael B. Abramowicz – (Law School, George Washington … Continue reading

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Blogging Software = Freedom to write in any form and shape you want

Harvard University professor Edward Glaeser: [...] Blogs and columns are quite different, and The Marginal Revolution illustrates what can make blogs exciting. Mr. Cowen and his collaborators post to the website with astonishing regularity. Their blog posts are often brief … Continue reading

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William F. Buckley Jr. once said that he would rather be governed by the first 100 names in the Boston phone directory than by the entire faculty of Harvard University.

First line of a Wall Street Journal piece on Brian Caplan’s book (The Myth of the Rational Voter), which mentions in passing James Surowiecki’s The Wisdom Of Crowds (our bible ). Thanks to Fabian John in Germany for the good … Continue reading

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MIT’s CCI seminar on Monday, May 14, 2007: Justin Wolfers, Prediction Markets

Interpreting Prediction Market Prices as Probabilities – Paper: PDF file — MIT Center for Collective Intelligence: CCI Spring 2007 Seminar Series All seminars will be held in NE20-336 (3 Cambridge Center). CCI seminars are on Mondays and Thursdays during the … Continue reading

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