From: Robin Hanson (rhanson@gmu.edu)
Date: Thu Aug 07 2003 - 20:15:27 MDT
At 04:40 PM 8/7/2003 -0400, Sébastien Chikara wrote:
>To prove wrong someone who wold say "The idea of a federal betting parlor on
>atrocities and terrorism is ridiculous and it's grotesque" ...
>I think a solution could be to add a new
>module to the idea, a form of electronic jurisprudence where people would
>have the opportunity to be pro-active at the horrors and injustices of this
>world instead of just being percieved as "passive observers who are
>cynically cashing-in" . I would like to hear constructive inputs on how
>this "e-jurisprudence" could be implemented legally and technically into
>"idea futures" ...
You might want to see Michael Abramowicz's paper:
http://www.law.gmu.edu/faculty/abramowicz_infomarkets.pdf
Robin Hanson rhanson@gmu.edu http://hanson.gmu.edu
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