Re: a market approach to terrorism

From: Robert J. Bradbury (bradbury@aeiveos.com)
Date: Thu May 08 2003 - 21:54:12 MDT

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    On Thu, 8 May 2003, Wei Dai wrote:

    > Here's where Robin Hanson's futarchy idea (see his post earlier today)
    > comes in. Establish betting markets, three for each person, on whether
    > that person will attempt an attack, whether he will succeed, and how many
    > casualties the attack will cause. [snip]

    I'm not sure what post Wei Dai is referencing. It does appear that Robin
    has a mention in the NY Times today:
      Hal Varian's column titled "A Market Approach to Politics"
      http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/08/business/08SCEN.html

    Nanodot discussion (none currently) is here:
      http://nanodot.org/articles/03/05/08/223252.shtml

    R.



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