Tag Archives: Predictocracy

Wanna know what Eric Zitzewitz thinks of Michael Abramowitz’s Predictocracy?

To read Eric Zitzewitz’s review of Michael Abramowitz’s Predictocracy, you need to go behind a wall. Totally absurd. Book reviews are typically the kind of information that should be free and easily accessible —HTML style. Previously: Is weather betting legal … Continue reading

Posted in Analysis (Meta), Collective Decision Making, Economics | Tagged , , , , , | Leave a comment

Decision markets will one day revolutionize governance, both public and private…

That’s the blurb that Robin Hanson wrote up for “Predictocracy“, Michael Abramowicz’s book. I don’t believe a single word of it. If prediction markets and decision-aid markets were so powerful, we would have had the evidence under our very nose, … Continue reading

Posted in Analysis (Meta), Collective Decision Making, Collective Forecasting, Collective Intelligence - Wisdom Of Crowds, Exchanges & Markets, Politics | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | 6 Comments

Predictocracy Book Review

I did a modest review of Michael Abramowicz’s new book: Predictocracy: Market Mechanisms for Public and Private Decision Making. You can read it here. In short, interesting, in an odd sort of way, yet worth the read. ~alex UsableMarkets

Posted in All Guest Authors's Posts, Analysis (Meta), Resources - References | Tagged , , , | 1 Comment

Predictocracy = Market Mechanisms for Public and Private Decision Making

Robin Hanson: [...] The main problem with using [Michael] Abramowicz’s book as a “technical manual”, however, is that he’s never actually seen, much less touched, most of the blocks he describes. His conclusions are not supported or tested by math … Continue reading

Posted in Analysis (Meta), Collective Decision Making, Collective Forecasting, Economics, Politics | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 2 Comments