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Robin Hanson

1959 - Today

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Robin Dale Hanson (born August 28, 1959) is an associate professor of economics at George Mason University and a former research associate at the Future of Humanity Institute of Oxford University. He is known for his work 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Robin Hanson has received more than 393,695 page views. His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Robin Hanson is the 415th most popular economist, the 7,233rd most popular biography from Germany and the 38th most popular German Economist.

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Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, Robin Hanson ranks 415 out of 414. Before him are Steven Levitt, Urjit Patel, Tyler Cowen, Thomas DiLorenzo, Susan Athey, and Kshama Sawant. After him are Lee Ju-ho.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1959, Robin Hanson ranks 803. Before him are Shubha Mudgal, Wendy Smith-Sly, Yvonne Cagle, John Whittingdale, Jo Bonner, and Ellen Roberts.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Robin Hanson ranks 7,522 out of 7,253. Before him are Sabine Schut-Kery (1968), Marc Koch (1994), Samuel Dakin (1808), Jasmin Grabowski (1991), Nadine Messerschmidt (1993), and Oliver Geis (1991). After him are Nicholas Rodda (1992), Johannes Thiemann (1994), Jacob Heidtmann (1994), Deborah Schöneborn (1994), Buly Da Conceição Triste (1991), and Xu Yingming (1992).

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Among ECONOMISTS In Germany

Among economists born in Germany, Robin Hanson ranks 38. Before him are Alfred Müller-Armack (1901), Ludwig Lachmann (1906), Karl Knies (1821), Alice Salomon (1872), Jörg Meuthen (1961), and W. Michael Blumenthal (1926).

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