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THE DAY ROBIN HANSON FOUGHT FOR HIS BABY

Robin Hanson on PAM: Just before Phase I commenced, I had designed and implemented a combinatorial market maker, and proposed that PAM use it. Charles Polk, president of Net Exchange, chose instead to refit their existing software to this application. … Continue reading

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Meet John Ledyard.

Photo by Mary Hanlon John Ledyard (center)

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MIT economics professor (and Nobel Prize-bound) Olivier Blanchard was Justin Wolfers’ thesis advisor.

—Olivier Blanchard Justin Wolfers — John Ledyard was Robin Hanson‘s thesis advisor. — Previous: Justin Wolfers and Robin Hanson ARE the top thinkers on prediction markets. + Is GMU professor Robin Hanson an inventor, an innovator, or… a complete loser??

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FOUR U.S. SCHOLARS ACCUSED OF ANTI-HEDGESTREET BIAS

My questions to Yiling Chen, John Ledyard, David Pennock and Eric Zitzewitz (alias “The Quartet”): – Why is it that HedgeStreet (the U.S.’s first CFTC-regulated real-money prediction exchange, a.k.a. betting exchange) is not cited? – Could you share with us … Continue reading

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FOUR U.S. SCHOLARS ACCUSED OF ANTI-HSX BIAS

My questions to Yiling Chen, John Ledyard, David Pennock and Eric Zitzewitz (alias “The Quartet”): – Why is it that Hollywood Stock Exchange (the world’s #1 play-money prediction exchange, a.k.a. betting exchange) is not cited? – Could you share with … Continue reading

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FOUR U.S. SCHOLARS ACCUSED OF ANTI-BETFAIR BIAS

My questions to Yiling Chen, John Ledyard, David Pennock and Eric Zitzewitz (alias “The Quartet”): – Why is it that BetFair (the world’s #1 prediction exchange, a.k.a. betting exchange) is not cited? – Could you share with us evidence that … Continue reading

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US Universities: Let’s Get Rid Of Tenure.

Let’s get rid of tenure for Robin Hanson, Justin Wolfers, Eric Zitzewitz, Paul Tetlock, Koleman Strumpf, John Ledyard, Charles Plott, etc. I endorse Steve Levitt’s proposal —just as a matter of libertarian principles.

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