Prediction Markets: The Practical and Normative Possibilities for the Social Production of Knowledge.

The quest to foretell the future is omnipresent in human affairs. A potential solution to this epistemological conundrum has emerged through mass collaboration. Motored by the Internet, prediction markets allow a multitude of individuals to assume a stake in a security whose value is tied to a futur...

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Published in:	Episteme (Edinburgh University Press) Vol. 6; no. 1; pp. 91 - 107
Main Author:	BRAGUES, GEORGE
Format:	Article
Published:	Edinburgh University Press 2009
Subjects:	Theory of knowledge Internet Prices Probability theory Psychology Mathematics
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