Robin D. Hanson

Assoc. Professor, Economics, George Mason University Robin Dale Hanson is an associate professor of economics at George Mason University and a research associate at the Future of Humanity Institute of Oxford University. He is known as an expert on idea futures and markets, and he was involved in the creation of the Foresight Institute's Foresight Exchange and DARPA's FutureMAP project. He invented market scoring rules like LMSR (Logarithmic Market Scoring Rule) used by prediction markets such as Consensus Point (where Hanson is Chief Scientist), and has conducted research on signalling.

• Caltech
  • Ph.D.
  • Social Science
• University of Chicago
  • M.S.
  • Physics
• UC Irvine
  • B.S.
  • Physics
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George Mason University
University of Chicago
• M.A.
• Conceptual Foundations of Science
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• Consensus Point
  • Chief Scientist
• George Mason University
  • Associate Professor of Economics
• Xanadu
  • Consultant
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