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Cass Sunstein, Tyler Cowen, and Robin Hanson
Webcast. Cass presents his new book Infotopia and Robin and I respond, filmed at the American Enterprise Institute and soon to be on C-Span. Me: "You left out the part about blogging being fun." Robin: "Talk isn't always such a good way to get at the truth."
Posted by Tyler Cowen on September 15, 2006 at 11:25 AM in Books | Permalink
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A webcast??? That seems to be minimally useful. I couldn't seem to get an mp3 out of it. Podcast, anyone?
Posted by: mc at Sep 15, 2006 11:36:33 AM
The sound works for me...note also you can skip ahead to whoever is your favored speaker...
Posted by: Tyler Cowen at Sep 15, 2006 1:37:25 PM
I highly recommend Sunstein's book. He offers some though provoking arguments against advocates of deliberative democracy such as Habermas, Ackerman, Gutmann. And he also shows how prediction markets bolster Hayek's thesis about the efficiency with which markets pool diparate information.
Posted by: Rue Des Quatre Vents at Sep 15, 2006 8:31:52 PM
What is better from a signalling perspective? Balding and not caring enough to hide it, or concealing it, but not skilfully enough that it ends up looking normal? ;)
Posted by: zai at Sep 15, 2006 11:28:23 PM
tyler, thanks so much for posting that. Even though I know a bit about predictions markets--largely from MR, Hanson, and tradesports--I still learned a lot.
zai, you're a jerk.
Posted by: ug at Sep 16, 2006 1:49:01 PM
