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Volume 9, 1995 - Issue 1: Simulating Science
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Symposium on the possibility of science funding as an ‘idea futures’ market

Could gambling save science? Encouraging an honest consensus

Robin Hanson Division of Humanities and Social Sciences, 228–77 California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, 91125, USA
Pages 3-33 | Published online: 19 Jun 2008

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