Robin Hanson
Economist and author
Robin Hanson is an American economist and author who teaches at George Mason University. He is known for his work on prediction markets.
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American Born 1959 in St. Charles, Illinois, United States
About Robin Hanson
Robin Hanson was born in 1959 in St. Charles, Illinois. He teaches economics at George Mason University as an associate professor. He holds a social science doctorate along with master's degrees in both physics and philosophy, and he spent nine years as a research programmer working in artificial intelligence and Bayesian statistics. Hanson has worked on idea futures and prediction markets. He invented market scoring rules, including the Logarithmic Market Scoring Rule, and was Chief Scientist at Consensus Point. He has also researched signalling and proposed the Great Filter hypothesis. He wrote The Age of Em, published by Oxford University Press in 2016. His book The Elephant in the Brain is available in the BookBits catalog.