Re: making "Idea Futures" "morally right" by adding a e-jurisprudence module to it

From: Robin Hanson (rhanson@gmu.edu)
Date: Thu Aug 07 2003 - 20:15:27 MDT

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    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
    Assistant Professor of Economics, George Mason University
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