Predictocracy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Predictocracy write by Michael Abramowicz. This book was released on 2008-10-01. Predictocracy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Predicting the future is serious business for virtually all public and private institutions, for they must often make important decisions based upon such predictions. This text explores how institutions might improve their predictions and arrive at better decisions by means of prediction markets.
Prediction Markets
Prediction Markets - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Prediction Markets write by Leighton Vaughan Williams. This book was released on 2011-06-16. Prediction Markets available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. How does one effectively aggregate disparate pieces of information that are spread among many different individuals? In other words, how does one best access the ‘wisdom of the crowd’? Prediction markets, which are essentially speculative markets created for the purpose of aggregating information and making predictions, offer the answer to this question. The effective use of these markets has the potential not only to help forecast future events on a national and international level, but also to assist companies, for example, in providing improved estimates of the potential market size for a new product idea or the launch date of new products and services. The markets have already been used to forecast uncertain outcomes ranging from influenza to the spread of infectious diseases, to the demand for hospital services, to the box office success of movies, climate change, vote shares and election outcomes, to the probability of meeting project deadlines. The insights gained also have many potentially valuable applications for public policy more generally. These markets offer substantial promise as a tool of information aggregation as well as forecasting, whether alone or as a supplement to other mechanisms like opinion surveys, group deliberations, panels of experts and focus groups. Moreover, they can be applied at a macroeconomic and microeconomic level to yield information that is valuable for government and commercial policy-makers and which can be used for a number of social purposes. This volume of original readings, contributed by many of the leading experts in the field, marks a significant addition to the base of knowledge about this fascinating subject area. The book should be of interest to anyone looking at monetary economics, economic forecasting and microeconomics.
Blockchain + Antitrust
Blockchain + Antitrust - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Blockchain + Antitrust write by Schrepel, Thibault. This book was released on 2021-09-21. Blockchain + Antitrust available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This innovative and original book explores the relationship between blockchain and antitrust, highlighting the mutual benefits that stem from cooperation between the two and providing a unique perspective on how law and technology could cooperate.
Infoglut
Infoglut - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Infoglut write by Mark Andrejevic. This book was released on 2013-06-26. Infoglut available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Today, more mediated information is available to more people than at any other time in human history. New and revitalized sense-making strategies multiply in response to the challenges of "cutting through the clutter" of competing narratives and taming the avalanche of information. Data miners, "sentiment analysts," and decision markets offer to help bodies of data "speak for themselves"—making sense of their own patterns so we don’t have to. Neuromarketers and body language experts promise to peer behind people’s words to see what their brains are really thinking and feeling. New forms of information processing promise to displace the need for expertise and even comprehension—at least for those with access to the data. Infoglut explores the connections between these wide-ranging sense-making strategies for an era of information overload and "big data," and the new forms of control they enable. Andrejevic critiques the popular embrace of deconstructive debunkery, calling into question the post-truth, post-narrative, and post-comprehension politics it underwrites, and tracing a way beyond them.
A Companion to Applied Philosophy
A Companion to Applied Philosophy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Companion to Applied Philosophy write by Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen. This book was released on 2016-11-14. A Companion to Applied Philosophy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Applied philosophy has been a growing area of research for the last 40 years. Until now, however, almost all of this research has been centered around the field of ethics. A Companion to Applied Philosophy breaks new ground, demonstrating that all areasof philosophy, including epistemology, metaphysics, philosophy of science, and philosophy of mind, can be applied, and are relevant to questions of everyday life. This perennial topic in philosophy provides an overview of these various applied philosophy developments, highlighting similarities and differences between various areas of applied philosophy, and examining the very nature of this topic. It is an area to which many of the towering figures in the history of philosophy have contributed, and this timely Companion demonstrates how various historical contributions are actually contributions within applied philosophy, even if they are not traditionally seen as such. The Companion contains 42 essays covering major areas of philosophy; the articles themselves are all original contributions to the literature and represent the state of the art on this topic, as well as offering a map to the current debates.
