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A FRIEND OF THE PREDICTION MARKETS IN THE WHITE HOUSE — Part 4
Previously: Part One – Part Two – Part Three
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Cass Sunstein has just been featured in the print edition of NewsWeek.
Web spot.
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A FRIEND OF THE PREDICTION MARKETS IN THE WHITE HOUSE — Part 3
Previously: Part One – Part Two
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Ezra Klein:
CASS SUNSTEIN PREPARES TO NUDGE.
There’s some confusion over a celebrity thinker like Cass Sunstein being appointed to head an office as obscure and bureaucratic as the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs. But OIRA is important! It’s just also boring.
OIRA was birthed in the 1980 Paperwork Reduction Act as [...]
A FRIEND OF THE PREDICTION MARKETS IN THE WHITE HOUSE — Part 2
Previously: Part One
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Wall Street Journal:
Although obscure, the post wields outsize power. It oversees regulations throughout the government, from the Environmental Protection Agency to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. Obama aides have said the job will be crucial as the new administration overhauls financial-services regulations, attempts to pass universal health care and tries to forge [...]
A FRIEND OF THE PREDICTION MARKETS IN THE WHITE HOUSE
Under the Barack Obama administration, Cass Sunstein will head the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, within the Office of Management and Budget, which is part of the Executive Office of the President of the United States.
Here’s Cass Sunstein’s track record on prediction markets:
- Infotopia: How Many Minds Produce Knowledge (Oxford University Press 2006)… which [...]
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