- Associate Professor of Economics, George Mason University1
Robin Hanson is an associate professor of economics at George Mason University. He is widely known for work on prediction markets and for proposing futarchy—governance that votes on values but bets on beliefs via markets—to improve policy decision-making.123
At a glance
- Current role
- Associate Professor of Economics
- Company
- George Mason University
- Fields
- Safety and alignment, Education
- Sources cited
- 3
- Profile reviewed
Accomplishments
Futarchy and prediction markets
Hanson's futarchy essays argue societies should vote on welfare measures and values while using speculative markets to choose policies expected to raise those measures. His GMU pages collect this and related writing on information aggregation.321
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- George Mason University 1 person in the wiki
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