Tag Archives: Zimbabwe

The Tragedy Of Alex Tabarrok

Posted on March 21, 2010 by Chris F. Masse

Debunking his Marginal Revolution post on Zimbabwe. UPDATE: Alex Tabarrok has taken into account the piece above.

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Can InTrade predict the future of foreign governments?

Posted on October 3, 2007 by Chris F. Masse

Probably, yes. InTrade is a good information aggregation mechanism, in most cases —there are always exceptions, of course. Here is the list of the “National Leaders” prediction markets at InTrade (under “Current Events”): National Leaders – Robert Mugabe (Zimbabwe) – … Continue reading →

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Plenty of new socially valuable prediction markets at InTrade.

Posted on July 20, 2007 by Chris F. Masse

InTrade seems to take its role as market leader for US political prediction markets very seriously. Since its official splitting with TradeSports, InTrade has opened many interesting prediction markets on legal, political and geo-political issues. — National Leader Departure Markets: … Continue reading →

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