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by Tony Curzon Price
According to our surveys, many oD readers are involved in research in some form or other: as students or academics or media-folk
To start, two anecdotes from my past as an economist.
I was founder and managing director of ELSECo, the game-theory consultancy company that designed the 2001 3G mobile-phone spectrum auction
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Turnout rates in English local elections are critically low.
They are not only the lowest in Europe, by a 12% margin, but also are falling further - by
Over the new-year break, I introduced the annual predictive-markets game (see "The wisdom of the openDemocracy crowd", 29 December 2006). Based on the Hayekian notion that markets are
We have been asking you to donate to openDemocracy because your contributions are critical to openDemocracy's growth. Why? I will now open up openDemocracy's finances to
During the 1980s, I read the Economist from cover to cover, week to week; during the 1990s I read it from the back, stopping with "Business"; since then
Busy forecasters at the Chicago Board of Trade
How good are you at forecasting world events? Can openDemocracy readers, authors and editors take the pulse of events? Who are the
Milton Friedman, who died on 16 November 2006, leaves a great economic legacy but a broadly failed philosophy. Ben S Bernanke (Alan Greenspan's successor as head of the
Tony Curzon Price, Becky Hogge and Sam Howard Spink are blogging from the iCommons iSummit in Rio this weekend, 23-25 June 2006
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Creative Commons is an American charity
In August 1993, at the bar of the Novotel in Libreville, Gabon, I had an encounter straight out of a Graham Greene novel.
Julien Joo, an official of some rank
Hugh Brody contrasts the hunter gatherer's holistic knowledge of his environment to the alienated relationship to prey and territory of the recreational hunter-land owner.
It is not clear
