nytimes.com - 3/26/2009
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The marketplace of ideas doesn’t clear out bad pundits and bad ideas partly because there’s no accountability. It is about time that changed.
nytimes.com - 3/27/2009
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nytimes.com —
The top officials in the Obama administration still
believe in the magic of the financial marketplace and...
in the prowess of the wizards who perform that magic.
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Op-Ed Columnist: The Market Mystique
nytimes.com - 4/3/2009
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nytimes.com —
Back in the early stages of the financial
crisis, wags joked that our trade with China had...
turned out to be fair and balanced after all: They sold us poison toys and tainted seafood; we sold them fraudulent securities. But these days, both sides of ...
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Op-Ed Columnist - China’s Dollar Trap
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Economist's View —
My Recovery Prediction - Robert Reich
How to measure the effectiveness of US merger policy - voxeu.org
A “legacy-equity” mechanism to recapitalise the banks - voxeu.org
Learning How to Think - NYTimes.com
U.S. to Detail Plan to Rein In Finance World - NYTimes.com
Geithner to Propose Vast Expansion Of Oversight - washingtonpost.com
Not so fast! There’s no reason to regulate everything - voxeu.org
Degrees of recourse - ...
Track records + Prediction markets — Will they mix up well?
Midas Oracle .ORG —
Yet another reason why we should *not* call it the “Prediction Market Institute”…
Nicholas Kristof:
So what about a system to evaluate us prognosticators? Professor Tetlock suggests that various foundations might try to create a “trans-ideological Consumer Reports for punditry,” monitoring and evaluating the records of various experts and pundits as a public service. I agree: Hold us accountable!
Should we set up a registry of track records —in addition to our prediction market stuff?… ...
Lunchtime Links 3-27
Rolfe Winkler —
... Learning How to Think (Kristof) The NYT columnist on why “experts” are often “a stunningly poor source of expertise.” ...
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