Robin Hanson
Economist at George Mason University; writes Overcoming Bias and coined the Great Filter.
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- Robin Hanson is an American economist and associate professor at George Mason University.
- He works on prediction markets and invented market scoring rules such as LMSR.
- He proposed futarchy, government by prediction markets, and coined the term Great Filter.
- He wrote The Age of Em (2016) and, with Kevin Simler, The Elephant in the Brain (2018).
- He blogs at Overcoming Bias.
Key facts
- Born
- 28 August 19591
- Position
- Associate professor of economics, George Mason University; former research associate, Future of Humanity Institute, Oxford1
- Education
- BS in physics, UC Irvine (1981); MS in physics and MA, University of Chicago (1984); PhD in social science, Caltech (1997)1
- Known for
- Market scoring rules (LMSR), futarchy, the Great Filter, the Policy Analysis Market1
- Books
- The Age of Em (2016); The Elephant in the Brain (2018, with Kevin Simler)1
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