Prediction Markets
- Prediction Markets
An explanation of how Prediction Markets should work, as well as a list of Prediction Markets, so their accuracy can be tracked daily. - Presidential Election Prediction Markets
An aggregate collection of U.S. Presidential Prediction Markets, updated automatically. - Dumb Agent Theory at work
A talk about the Influenza Prediction Market, one of the prime applications of the Dumb Agent Theory.
- Predictify
A short introduction to Predictify and its Freakonomics Prediction Center.
- Prove us Wrong
Show us the Dumb Agent Theory doesn’t work, if you can.
- WSJ: Trading on the Wisdom of Crowds
Prediction Markets vs. Polling, from the Wall Street Journal.
- CFTC to Regulate Prediction Markets
The Commodity Futures Trade Commission plans to start regulating Prediction Markets
- Prediction Markets Resource
A great website dealing solely with Prediction Markets
- WSJ on Prediction Markets
The Wall Street Journal discusses Prediction Markets and their possible fallacies.
- CFTC Jursdiction – Other Point of view
Mercury’s blog has a different point of view regarding the CFTC regulation of Prediction Markets.
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Original Theory by Dumbagent.com
- A Letter from a Concerned Reader
A discussion on the possible causes of the state of our economy and whether we are experiencing a “Banana”.
The Wisdom of Crowds
By James Surowiecki
Anchor Books, 2005. 306 pp., $10.17
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Freakonomics
A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
By Steven Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
HarperCollins Publishers, 2005. 256 pp., cloth.
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